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#66: September 6-17, 2015

Today, Dan may have bitten off more than he can chew as he continues to give Jordan the results of his ongoing investigation into what happened to get Alex Jones on to the Trump Train back in 2015. In this episode, Dan tries to cover way too long a stretch of time, in order to get to the end of Alex's 2015 Money Bomb, conveniently scheduled a few weeks before the end of the fiscal year. There's a lot to cover, but thankfully Dan and Jordan have each other, and a guest appearance from their old friend, Red Wine, to help the medicine go down.

Participants
Main voices
a
alex jones
29:08
d
dan friesen
02:02:48
j
jordan holmes
01:12:28
Appearances
j
joe biggs
02:37
l
larry nichols
02:13
t
tom arnold
02:17
Clips
d
donald j trump
00:34
s
steve quayle
00:43
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
alex jones
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
We are a couple dudes who like to sit around and drink novelty beverages and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Is there a twist today unspecific to the twists of yesterday?
dan friesen
I don't know.
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I was trying to go with yesteryear, and I was like, we haven't been doing this.
dan friesen
Strange phrase.
jordan holmes
Yestermonth?
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I got nothing.
dan friesen
Today's novelty beverage is red wine.
We are going back to our roots.
The show originally was us drinking wine and talking about Alex Jones.
We had to settle that down for a little bit.
We wanted to go back to the roots!
jordan holmes
And the reason was given to me by Dan as...
We're gonna need to drink wine for this one.
dan friesen
We might need to brace ourselves.
Steal our reserves.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
That's not the expression, but...
No.
Look, I think that we've been getting...
jordan holmes
Steal our reserves.
You know, we got a lot of food squared away.
We need to cover it in steel.
dan friesen
Right, and you know nothing about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
I don't know anything about Alex Jones.
dan friesen
Premise of the show, I know a lot about Alex Jones.
Jordan over there does not know much about him.
jordan holmes
I'm just excited we're drinking again.
dan friesen
Amen.
One of the reasons was I was listening back to our last episode, and I realized I was way too mad about...
The people who were posting the Bon Iver video meme of Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
You were very pissed.
dan friesen
I was right, but I was way too mad.
And I don't like that.
That's not what this show's supposed to be.
I don't want to turn into some Alex Jones facsimile where I'm screaming that everybody's doing this wrong and all this.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's true.
dan friesen
I felt really self-conscious about it.
I'm like, well, the only...
Solution is let's get drunk.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, I have actually been having the same kind of thoughts recently where it's like, are we just becoming the anti-Alex Jones?
Like, there's been a couple of things where I've noticed, like, listening back, it's like, oh, that's exactly what he does.
dan friesen
But we don't build up false narratives for a specific purpose.
You know, like, I don't think we do that.
jordan holmes
But we tear down false narratives for a specific purpose.
dan friesen
Which is...
jordan holmes
So we're just the anti-Alex Jones.
dan friesen
We're tearing down those narratives for the sake of tearing them down because they're lies.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
So I think it's okay.
jordan holmes
We're like Reagan.
dan friesen
Right.
Tear down that lie wall.
But to get back to that.
jordan holmes
God, I hope David Hasselhoff closes out this episode.
dan friesen
He definitely will.
He comes in in the money bomb.
jordan holmes
Really?
Okay.
dan friesen
So, like, I want to also say that, like I said...
unidentified
And now we have Baywatch star David Hasselhoff to sing his recording.
dan friesen
Donna DeRico.
On backup vocals.
I want to say that about that Bon Iver video, I'm totally right.
Alex Jones just announced...
jordan holmes
That's twice we have confirmed Deon is right.
Self-confirmed?
dan friesen
Well, Alex Jones, just at the end of last week, announced a $20,000 contest for people to make parody versions of this parody song about him.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And that's what I'm saying he's going to do.
That's what he does all the time with this shit.
jordan holmes
No, you have been proven right, but, you know, it's a little gauche to talk about it yourself.
You should have given me a little cue.
I would have been like, Dan, you're so right.
dan friesen
The reason I brought it up and maybe forced a self-congratulatory note is because I know exactly what the plan is for what this contest is going to achieve.
He's basically going to have all the, he's posted all the lyrics of the parody song on his website, on Infowars.com, and what he's going to have people do, and the winner who ends up winning this $10,000 of the $20,000, because it's broken down, it's three prizes, one for best parody, that's $10,000.
$5,000 will be awarded to the person who films it in the weirdest, or best location.
Their video is in the, I don't know what that means.
Congress?
jordan holmes
Is that a way to avoid paying out that $5,000?
dan friesen
Probably.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But I know what he's going to do.
All the lyrics are there.
jordan holmes
My sex dungeon is the weirdest location.
dan friesen
It's super weird.
jordan holmes
That's super weird, but I'm not giving you five grand for it.
dan friesen
It is a way that he is going to essentially get people to try and reinforce...
The lines in that song that people are making fun of.
So it'll be like, we love our Somalis, and then flash up on the screen something about how Somalis kill people.
It's going to be a thing where he takes his propaganda and it's reinforced through the use of that parody song.
It's like, oh, they're making fun of all this stuff.
All of it's true.
They do want to eat babies.
Stuff like that.
And it's like, you guys are fighting a losing battle.
So, anyway.
It's going to be a bummer.
But the good news is way less people will see that parody version than the Bon Iver version.
jordan holmes
That's definitely true.
dan friesen
So there's something to be said for that.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
Let's get into greener pastures and happy things.
I'd like to give a shout-out to a couple of new donators.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit!
A couple?
dan friesen
That's right.
I'd like to give a shout-out to our new friend, Rex.
What's going on out there?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Thank you for donating, Rex.
jordan holmes
If you're Rex Tillerson, you have to let us know.
dan friesen
It's not.
It's Rex.
jordan holmes
How dare you, Rex Tillerson?
dan friesen
It's Rex from our favorite pro-wrestling-themed punk band, the Razor Ramones.
jordan holmes
All right.
Well, then never mind, Rex.
I'm a huge fan of you.
dan friesen
Yeah, you're the best Rex of the Rexes we've mentioned.
Also, I'd like to give a shout-out to our other new donator.
What's up, Anthony?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Welcome aboard.
jordan holmes
If that's Anthony Weiner, I'm just going to do this every single time you give a first name.
dan friesen
It's actually Anthony Kumia, host of the fourth hour of the Alex Jones program, periodically.
Anyway, Jordan, let's get things started.
jordan holmes
I like the idea that Infowars employees actually stealth donate to us, just going like, please get us out of this.
He won't let us leave.
He won't let us leave.
Just take him down.
Somebody!
dan friesen
Only you can destroy him.
Today, we're going to be going over Investigation, the 11th installment of the Investigation, where we go through 2015 and find out what the fuck happened to make Alex Jones go crazy.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And today, we'll be going through September 6th to September 17th.
jordan holmes
This is...
This is inexplicable, right?
Like, when did this...
This started in June?
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Our investigation began June 15th, the day that Donald Trump announced his candidacy.
jordan holmes
How is this still going on?
Shouldn't it be over by now?
dan friesen
I expected it to be.
jordan holmes
Especially with his full-on, like...
Now he's going, 1776, you know, that whole thing.
unidentified
You mean in 2017?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shouldn't he be on the train by now?
What's going on?
dan friesen
You'd think you would have made some sort of substantial move, and we just have not seen that yet.
jordan holmes
No, not at all.
dan friesen
No.
Today we're going to be going over, like I said, September 6th, the 17th.
The reason that's important is the end of his big money bomb, which we've discussed.
And it's what I have speculated is the opportunity.
For bizarro money to come flowing into the show.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
I think that might...
I've speculated that might be the case.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
So does he get into, like, a tube and a lot of $1 bills kind of get vacuumed around him, you know, like one of those shows?
unidentified
The big air jets?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
It would be better...
jordan holmes
He has to grab as many of them as he can in order to...
dan friesen
Now, Larry Nichols, I know you have lung cancer, but get in the tube.
If you want your bills covered, get in the tube.
I don't know.
It would be better.
jordan holmes
That's way more fun.
Don't give out $10,000 prizes.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Just fly somebody out.
Put them in a tube and throw $1 bills at them the whole time.
That'd be perfect.
That'd be great.
I would be way more happy with that than $10,000.
dan friesen
I probably would, too, for the story, for the experience.
Yeah, of course.
jordan holmes
Money's just money.
You can't take it with you when you go.
And seeing as how we're all going in like 10 to 15 years max.
dan friesen
Oh, that seems high.
Oh, yeah.
But you know what?
Before we go, before we die, everyone needs to listen to this Out of Context drop from Alex Jones.
alex jones
God bless you, man.
I'm sorry for your son.
They didn't get his soul, though.
And see, I don't know how that works when they brain damage a baby.
And they never attain full consciousness.
I guess that soul just ends up when they die going right to God.
So in a way, it's a reprieve.
I can't judge.
See, the globalists know a lot of this stuff.
I wonder if they wouldn't be brain-killing kids or soft-killing them, mind-killing them if they thought they weren't still getting the soul because that's what they really want.
So maybe they think when they're all brain-damaged and get all crazed and then get older, That they'll get smart enough to get corrupted and maybe possessed.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm trying to figure out why these demons, from whatever dimension they come from, want to brain damage the kids.
Because I know God doesn't damn people to hell that never were conscious.
I don't know.
It's just food for thought.
dan friesen
Food for thought.
Why is that food for thought?
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Also, I love the Mindkiller reference to Gang Gang Dance.
Everybody knows that.
dan friesen
I'm certain that's what it was.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
It's a great song.
It's a great song.
dan friesen
Jordan, I completely fucked up.
I forgot that I...
unidentified
I know.
dan friesen
I forgot that...
jordan holmes
The Bon Iver video was great.
dan friesen
No, I forgot that I had another thing I wanted to discuss before we got into our main episode.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So guys, forgive me, but I have another clip that we need to listen to.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Because it's great.
Recently, I don't have permission to play this, but I'm going to anyway.
I hope he doesn't sue me.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
Recently, Jimmy Pardo on Never Not Funny had Tom Arnold as a guest.
And Tom Arnold had a very interesting story about some of the people that are involved in our universe.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Alex Jones comes up in this clip.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Mike Cernovich comes up in this clip.
And alleged Nazi Jesse James comes up in this clip.
This, when I heard this...
jordan holmes
Sandra Bullock?
Also alleged Nazi.
dan friesen
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on.
When I heard this, I squealed with delight, and I want to play this.
For those of you out in the world who do not have Never Not Funny, don't get the episodes.
Please, enjoy Tom Arnold being cool as shit.
tom arnold
Well, here's what happened.
Here's last week.
This alt-right guy, white supremacist guy, challenges me to a fight.
He says, oh, I go good.
We'll do it for charity, because I do these charity boxing matches.
I fought my old rabbi who made $300,000 for Beto Shuba.
I go, I will fight you for money.
Good, we'll take your fans.
And then all of a sudden, this guy named Jesse James hoards and says, I'll represent Mike Servich, is the guy's name.
unidentified
Oh, that idiot.
tom arnold
Yeah, yeah.
And Jesse James goes, I will fight tough.
I'll fight.
And I go, wait a minute.
Are you the Jesse James that cheated on his awesome wife with the stripper with the swastika tattoo and lost his family?
Because there's a lot of Jesse James out there.
I don't know who's who.
Apparently it was.
I go, oh good.
That'll be even better because I know I'll kick your ass.
And by the way, that'll make us more money.
So let's do this thing.
unidentified
Okay.
tom arnold
And so then I get Joe Carnahan's a producer director.
He's helped set it up.
Like, this is really happening.
We're going to do it at Beverly Hilton.
We're going to make a million dollars to help Gold Star families and post-traumatic stress organization.
It's great.
It's great fun.
And they go on that InfoWars show with Alex and say I'm a pussy and whatever.
And they challenge me.
I'm like, hey, they're promoting this.
This is awesome.
And all his fans are calling me names.
This is just great.
And then they pussed out.
donald j trump
Why do they wish?
tom arnold
Oh, because they realized...
That everything they do, like Jesse James now sells guns, and that servant guy, he wrote a book called Gorilla Man or something, like, is about, like, he promotes, he says there's no such thing as date rape, and men are pussies now, and you got me to, everything they do, if they were on video getting their ass kicked by me, which would happen, just like my rabbi, unfortunately, then everything they do, say, It means nothing.
unidentified
Right.
tom arnold
And that's what really happened.
And so they would lose everything.
So they whisked out on that.
dan friesen
That's slightly different than the version that Mike Cernovich tells.
unidentified
A little bit!
dan friesen
Also, I believe it way more.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
Also, I'll tell you this.
We get to use that clip.
Pardo headlined a show that I was emceeing at Zany's.
And he talked shit about me for 20 minutes.
So come at me, Pardo!
dan friesen
Sure.
All right, we got the...
jordan holmes
We got the implicit go-ahead.
dan friesen
Also, how great would that be if we just end up in some sort of bizarre feud about using a clip of Tom Arnold talking shit on Cernovich?
Ah, but I mean, there's a couple things in there that I fucking love, and that is that Tom Arnold does realize that Mike Cernovich going on Infowars...
Calling Tom Arnold a pussy after they had already agreed to have a celebrity boxing match is just another version of promotion.
He gets it.
He gets that.
jordan holmes
Pro wrestling.
dan friesen
And he perfectly assesses why they couldn't follow through.
jordan holmes
If Tom Arnold doesn't have his shit beat out of him, then...
Like he said, the whole game is over.
dan friesen
Even if it's close.
jordan holmes
Like, oh.
dan friesen
Even if it's close, it's a disaster for Sarnovich.
jordan holmes
Imagine you got beat up by Tom Arnold.
You got beat up by the star of The Stupids.
dan friesen
If I did, I wouldn't feel bad about it.
It would probably be like, eh.
jordan holmes
I would do it for the experience.
dan friesen
I probably wouldn't.
jordan holmes
That would be fun.
Do I get to go into a money tube afterwards?
dan friesen
Anyway, I just like bringing...
Yeah, you do.
His rabbi has that set up on the side of the stage.
jordan holmes
Is that a stealth racist thing about Jews?
dan friesen
It wasn't, but now I realize it sounds bad.
Oh well.
Anyway, I just like to bring up any time in pop culture we get...
Evidence that these dudes are whack as fuck.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, anyway.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Behind the scenes, they had already agreed to it, is what his point is.
And then they back out.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
That is the most beta cuck move you can do.
dan friesen
Especially Mike Cernovich challenging him and then getting biker Jesse James to stand in for him.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I use you as tribute.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Whatever, yeah.
jordan holmes
Like some sort of Game of Thrones shit.
He wasn't calling the mountain, you know?
dan friesen
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
So...
dan friesen
Let's get to the episode, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yes, let's do it.
We've had our fun, now let's get shit-faced and talk shit.
dan friesen
We're going to start on September 6th, and that is a Sunday show, so we know that Alex Jones likes to launch soft narratives on his Sunday shows.
And I feel like we've done a decent job of saying where we left off.
The money bomb is coming up.
Alex Jones is clearly needing money at the end of the fiscal year.
He needs to try and raise a million dollars.
And at this point, he has only said basically that he likes what Trump is saying, but he doesn't trust him, still loves Rand Paul.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
There we go.
We're up to speed.
This September 6th, we're going to start exactly how Alex Jones starts the show.
alex jones
Every day I start the broadcast, and I'm just honest with you.
Wow, we got a lot of news.
And usually I cover about 20% of it.
jordan holmes
That is honest.
alex jones
Some days I cover 60-70% of it.
Every once in a while I cover 90-something percent of it.
jordan holmes
Nope.
Usually you cover about...
alex jones
Today's one of the days I really should cover all of it.
jordan holmes
8% of it?
dan friesen
Maybe.
Maybe 8. Yeah.
jordan holmes
Maybe a headline.
alex jones
Because when you look at this world, there are two types of people when you boil it all down.
There's different subgroups, but there's dogs and there's cats.
jordan holmes
All right.
unidentified
Well, kill yourself.
alex jones
I got this article right here.
jordan holmes
Kill yourself right now.
alex jones
The National Post.
Your cat doesn't love you.
Scientific studies show.
I don't need a scientific study to show me that my cat, and I do have one cat and two dogs, does not love me.
jordan holmes
Because no animal has ever loved you.
alex jones
It only wants to pretend I'm its mother and make biscuits on my stomach in an infantile manner.
But it could care less if I fell down and died tomorrow.
It doesn't have anxiety when I'm gone, except it wants to bitch and gripe and ask for food.
It wants a free handout.
My dogs, on the other hand, would basically die and have heart attacks.
If something happened to me, and that's clear, and it's that spiritual connection, it's that honorableness of the dog, which isn't perfect, but it has honor.
Silly and ignorant, but has guts, and guts is enough, is why I'm a dog person and not a cat person.
dan friesen
Great.
jordan holmes
What was that?
alex jones
And people out there think they're getting ahead being cat people.
jordan holmes
Oh, it's still going?
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
alex jones
Folks that think they're getting ahead not caring about other folks, you think you're cool, only caring about yourself, you're an idiot.
unidentified
Yeah.
alex jones
It's like people that get in a hot tub and take a crap.
And I hate to be gross here, but you think you're getting away with it.
Go to the bathroom.
When you crap on everyone else, you're crapping on yourself.
And these are just elementary understandings here.
Cats are not pack animals unless you look at lions in Africa and they still feed on each other.
Dogs are creatures of honor, first and foremost.
If I had to have an archetypal totem animal, it would be the dog.
Cats are cute, cats are funny, but make no mistake, They won't be there for you when you're in a jam, and if somebody comes in your house and attacks you, they're not going to stand up for you.
Dogs will.
You don't hear about cops going to people's houses and shooting their cats, do you?
It's the dog, because they're not cowards.
Even if they're little or they're big, they stand up because they love you.
And our society is imploding because we're becoming a cat society.
Not a dog society.
dan friesen
So this is Alex Jones trying to make a point about the world while, at the same time, trying to work out some material for a weekend he's doing in a shitty club.
jordan holmes
I was gonna say, this is a shitty 80s hack bit, right?
dan friesen
Yeah, basically.
jordan holmes
Y 'all know the difference between dogs and cats.
Yeah, man.
Cats on one side, they be like this.
dan friesen
Yeah, you said it.
jordan holmes
Dogs over here, they be walking like this!
dan friesen
Oh, man.
jordan holmes
That's the truth.
unidentified
Oh, God.
jordan holmes
I love Def Jam.
dan friesen
That's the truth.
jordan holmes
I love Def Jam comedy.
dan friesen
That is terrible hacky nonsense.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And look, I got a cat.
I know she doesn't really love me, but we have a complicated kind of love.
You know, that's how cats and dogs are.
Dogs are simple.
Cats are complex.
There we go.
I don't know.
Now I'm getting into it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, damn, there's two kinds of people in the world.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
jordan holmes
People who explain their love.
I don't know.
dan friesen
Who cares?
jordan holmes
I got nothing for that.
That was dumb.
That's just dumb.
dan friesen
But that, I think, is an indication of how Alex often does, like, these Sunday shows are low stakes for him.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He knows that not many people are watching.
And so he just kind of fills time, a lot of the Sunday shows.
So why not start off the show with a five minute riff about why don't cops kill cats when they come to your house?
jordan holmes
I forgot, this is how he's starting the show.
dan friesen
Right out of the gate.
Right out of the gate.
jordan holmes
Look, sometimes I feel like I gotta get into all of this news today.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
But let me tell you something about dog and cat people.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, he doesn't stay on that theme for very long.
jordan holmes
Now, does he feel the same way about dog chimeras and cat chimeras?
dan friesen
Interesting.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Do they take on the property?
This is a very good...
This is groundbreaking questions for Alex.
dan friesen
Next week I'll call in the show.
jordan holmes
Do the animals take on the properties...
Or do the people take on the properties of the animal that they're chimered with?
dan friesen
I think they would have to.
jordan holmes
Do you?
dan friesen
Yeah, I mean, there's got to be some sort of genetic influence from the host animal.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but the fish people have, you know...
Sad human eyes.
dan friesen
You don't know that fish aren't sad all the time.
We have no idea about the psychology of fish.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
dan friesen
They are pack animals.
jordan holmes
I don't know if fish are sad all the time.
dan friesen
So Alex does not stay on this theme.
jordan holmes
That would be a really depressing thing.
Scientists reveal that fish are all depressed all the time.
dan friesen
They're bummed out.
They like the flakes, but nothing else.
So Alex doesn't stay on this theme for very long.
jordan holmes
Have you seen any cops killing your fish?
dan friesen
That's a good point.
He does get weird.
There's a couple things he says on this show that I think are indefensibly weird.
And I don't think...
I don't think if pressed he could explain what the fuck he's talking about.
And here is the first of those clips.
alex jones
And then they write books like Ecoscience and Bertrand Russell writes books from the 30s right through the 80s and the 90s bragging about it.
These people think they're gods.
And they say the public doesn't care.
We must have the right to do it.
You see, like you say, at a spiritual intergalactic level, at an interstellar level.
There are rules just written on the universe by God.
And if you don't protest something, if you don't say no to it, then you are acquiescing and accepting.
dan friesen
That's really weird.
jordan holmes
On an interstellar level.
dan friesen
Intergalactically.
jordan holmes
Intergalactic level.
unidentified
Both.
dan friesen
He uses both of those words.
jordan holmes
How do we feel about McConaughey?
He's great.
dan friesen
God wrote that rule on the universe.
McConaughey is pretty cool.
jordan holmes
Just keep living.
dan friesen
Amen.
jordan holmes
That's what we do here.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's super bizarre.
He's basically expressing the belief that, you know, if you don't fight back against something, you consent to it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and I don't disagree with him.
I disagree with how he wants to direct that.
But he's defeated.
Like, he's...
Denying the Nuremberg defense, basically.
dan friesen
How so?
jordan holmes
Well, the idea that I was just taking orders is not an actual defense towards you putting Jews into a concentration camp.
Right.
unidentified
You know, so the he is right.
jordan holmes
And and it's something that I've talked about or I talked about recently, which is every day that I'm not protesting the mistreatment of black people by.
unidentified
Fucking everything.
dan friesen
The police in particular.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I am implicitly consenting to allowing this kind of worldview to exist.
dan friesen
I think it's a little more complicated than that.
jordan holmes
Well, that's because you're a cat person.
dan friesen
I don't think that there are universal rules and galactic rules that were written by God.
Especially in the way that he's presenting it, because what he's saying is that these globalists, like Bertrand Russell, and the ecoscience he references...
jordan holmes
Yeah, I like how he's really bringing up the recent references.
You know, Bertrand Russell, writing in the 30s.
dan friesen
Right, and John P. Holdren's textbook, Ecoscience, he brings up, which you've discussed in the past, does not say the things that it says.
He's saying that they are putting this out there, they're giving the information of what they're doing to you, and if you don't fight back, then you just accept it.
And that's cockamamie because he's lying about what those things say.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Ecoscience, the textbook, doesn't say that they're putting things in the water.
It doesn't say that they're trying to dumb down the population.
It has nothing to do with that stuff.
It's a fucking textbook.
And they just...
We've been over it.
It doesn't matter.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Ugh, I hate him.
jordan holmes
Anyway.
I'm still mad about the dog and cat thing.
I'll tell you that.
I couldn't even listen to that.
dan friesen
Listen, that might have been pretty weird.
jordan holmes
Also, I'm telling you...
Interstellar, the plot mechanics are not great.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Great.
Save it through when you're on Doug Loves Movies.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry.
We gotta get a lot more listeners before that happens.
dan friesen
Maybe.
Next time he's at the Rosemont or whatever.
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
Anyway, that clip was weird.
But I'm telling you, this next clip is much weirder.
I might have oversold how weird that clip is.
I think it's fucking very weird that he believes that there's interstellar rules.
That's very weird to me.
This next clip, I think it's undeniably weird.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
And they think that people lining up to get their new iPhone, that's technology.
alex jones
No, that's 50-year-old crap.
unidentified
Exactly.
The true technologies, they have it.
alex jones
The true technologies, our mind and our genetics that every scientist that's in genetic engineering understands isn't even of this world.
We're made in the image of the creator that made this planet.
We predate this planet.
The elite all know that.
They're just there dumbing the public down to not get it.
We're not!
We're not, like, seeking after the elves.
We are the elves.
And they know that.
They can't stand it.
They want to keep you from that knowledge.
They're aware of what we are.
They want to play God while we run around watching NFL.
That's what the joke is.
unidentified
Yes.
I don't have any favorite idols.
My idol is myself, to tell you the truth.
alex jones
Well, my idol is human ingenuity and going to the stars and fulfilling God's destiny.
unidentified
And that's what we need to show our children and try and reach as many people as we can.
alex jones
I agree with you.
God bless you.
I got to jump.
This is not an elite that would put stuff in vaccines to lower our IQ and put fluoride in the water to lower our IQ.
An elite doesn't seek to dumb people down.
Let's say the elite are some alien species.
I'm not saying that, but let's just hypothetically.
What type of elite alien species wants to dumb down a planet and make people a bunch of retarded idiots?
You're not my god!
A real god wants to build me up and give me Promethean fire!
Not control me!
Do you not know that goddamn reference?
You are not god.
You are fallen degenerate scum standing in the way of the true creation that dominates you.
They hate humanity.
They hate honor.
They hate beauty.
Hate creativity because we are their God.
You understand that?
The elite cannot stand true humanity.
They will go to hell before they capture anything.
They're a joke.
They're only there to provide us with the stress to make us go to the next level.
Just get that straight through your heads.
They are fallen.
They are failed.
They are scum.
So let them play their games.
Let them win for the season.
We win for eternity.
Praise Jesus Christ.
I don't mean to get so hardcore today, but I prayed last night at like 10 o 'clock at night.
I said, God, just let me tell the truth.
I am tired of backing down to these people.
I'm tired of watching them have their way with humanity.
Just turn me loose and turn humanity loose.
Amy in Tennessee, you're on the air.
dan friesen
Man, man, oh man.
alex jones
Amy in Tennessee, you are on the air.
dan friesen
That is smooth as silk.
So what do you think about that?
Humans predate the earth.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
I think most Christians believe that, right?
dan friesen
I don't think so.
jordan holmes
I don't think that's nowhere near any kind of Christianity, right?
dan friesen
That's not anywhere near anything outside of, like, the weirdest theosophy, like, the weirdest pseudo-spiritualism.
I mean, I guess there is a little bit of...
jordan holmes
And on the seventh day, God rested, and then he went back to the negative first day, and he was like, well, I might as well create humans here, too.
I mean, why not?
dan friesen
It goes into a little bit of vaguely Gnostic beliefs.
There is a tiny bit of the idea of pieces of your spirit predate humanity.
That sort of thing.
jordan holmes
A little bit of Tolkien.
A little bit of elves.
dan friesen
And a little bit of internet message board Illuminati talk.
That goes back to a lot of that stuff.
And the idea that he presents that these globalists...
All they're there for is to be a challenge for us to get to the next level.
jordan holmes
That's a fairly common belief within Christianity, though.
That idea that this life is a test.
dan friesen
Right, but it also goes to the ideas that have been pitched on internet message boards about the Illuminati.
jordan holmes
So with all of the bullshit that we deal with, every time he gets into that weird religious aspect...
He just has so much more of a ring of truth to him.
When he's saying we're not seeking the elves, we are the elves.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It feels like he believes that.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And that's speaking in parable.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's like, if you guys understand.
You get it.
jordan holmes
You get...
You way get it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You maybe get it too much.
dan friesen
I wonder if he's talking about the DMT machine elves.
You know, when people take DMT, they often see machine elves.
jordan holmes
I don't know what that means at all.
dan friesen
Dimethyltryptamine is a substance that you can take.
It's a very powerful hallucinogen.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
And you can smoke it.
And when you do, a lot of people...
I don't know what the percentages are.
And I haven't taken it myself.
But a lot of people report...
jordan holmes
Well, we started drinking wine, so I suppose the next episode we're going to have to do DMT.
dan friesen
It lasts for like 10 minutes and we could never record on it.
You can't move.
You're just hallucinating so hard.
Maybe you can move a little.
Who cares?
But a lot of people report that they see elves working gears and machinery.
And some people have speculated that behind the veil of reality, like DMT allows you to see beyond.
jordan holmes
Pierce the veal.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
And you see that there are elves who are working the machinery of reality that create whatever we see in our reality.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
Well, that's obvious, though.
Where else would we get cookies?
dan friesen
From those trees.
Those trees that have elf factories.
Look, let's not go any further down this road.
jordan holmes
Okay, okay, fine.
dan friesen
Let's try and stay on topic.
unidentified
Right, right.
dan friesen
We're still in the sixth.
jordan holmes
You've already established that we're doing an eight and a half hour long episode.
dan friesen
Never drinking wine on the show ever again.
This is already off the rails.
So, on the 6th, Alex Jones does a lot of that weird stuff, and then, in addition to that, we start to see this creeping pro-Russia stance.
jordan holmes
Oh, we're starting to see it now.
dan friesen
Well, no, we've already seen the beginnings of it starting to come out.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
No, but that was more like pro-strongman.
dan friesen
Russia is male.
jordan holmes
Pro-man taking, bah, that whole thing.
dan friesen
We're starting to see a little bit more of it.
And here's what he has to say about Russia and Assad.
alex jones
And then we see the shocking images of a drowned Syrian boy show tragic plight of refugees.
Our government five years ago launches Al Qaeda in Syria, kills 300,000 of these innocent people.
And then when Russia and Syria fight back, we call them terrorists.
And our own media says that, quote, take out Assad, that'll stop ISIS when that's a group attacking.
And they show a dead little two-year-old toddler.
in the sand, but they won't show them.
unidentified
Fuck you.
alex jones
Tens of thousands of dead babies that I've seen online.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
alex jones
And you've seen online that were killed by Western-backed rebels in Syria.
So they create the crisis and then say, look, a dead baby.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Look.
dan friesen
That's crazy.
jordan holmes
Compare that.
Compare that bullshit fake empathy with when somebody, like when a terrorist attack happens and he revels in all of the people who died, saying, look at how right I am.
And then he pretends to give a fuck about that.
Nope.
No!
He doesn't get to own both empathy and complete sociopathy.
That doesn't count.
dan friesen
Fair.
jordan holmes
That's a fake voice.
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
That's a fake bullshit.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
No, I'm not cool with that.
dan friesen
Well, are you cool with the fact that he's saying that basically Russia and Assad are the good guys?
unidentified
Oh, of course.
dan friesen
Okay.
Well, actually, you know, that was the 6th.
And then on the 7th is Labor Day.
So he doesn't have a show on Labor Day.
They just do a rerun show.
And so, you know, no need to dwell on that.
jordan holmes
I'm glad he supports union holidays.
dan friesen
Well, I think he actually...
jordan holmes
I'm sure that he loves the free market and prosperity so much that he has to be like, well, thank God we have a day to celebrate unions.
dan friesen
He does actually make a little bit of a point of that.
jordan holmes
Oh, really?
dan friesen
Yeah, the fact that we still celebrate this union holiday.
I've got to give my people a day off.
Anyway, we come back on the 8th, and guess what?
He's still on his bullshit about Russia being the good guys.
alex jones
But as you can see, I'm particularly crazed today because this is the reality of what's happening.
And then I look at all the other news, all the other things that are happening.
U.S. demands Greece closed airspace to Russian humanitarian aid for Syria when they're only flying them in food, and Russia's doing us a favor.
dan friesen
See, I mean, that's not to say that that in and of itself is an evil thing to say.
It's not wrong to say that Russia does some good things, some bad things.
But we're seeing a pattern developing over the course of early September of just outright, Russia's the good guys, we're the bad guys.
And it's really bizarre.
It's really bizarre considering Alex Jones' past.
As we've discussed, he played into so much Russophobia in his early career.
jordan holmes
And the last time Russia did us a favor was in World War II.
That was the very last time.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, I don't know.
I don't know what to make of it.
It is really interesting that if we look at the timeline of the world, it seems like summer, fall of...
2005 is when something...
jordan holmes
2015.
dan friesen
Yeah, excuse me.
2015 is when something really fucked up happened.
I think that that might be the branching point when our world could have gone one way or the other and we went the wrong way.
jordan holmes
That's our dark timeline.
dan friesen
It just so happens that that's when Alex Jones is starting to warm to Trump, happens to be saying tons of positive shit about Russia and Assad on his show.
I don't know.
I don't have a conclusion, but it's weird.
jordan holmes
The thing that I think about pretty consistently is what's the balance between Putin taking advantage of a situation and Putin instigating the situation, right?
So all of these guys right now in 2015 are just starting to be like, well, look at this strongman doing shit.
Now, how much of that is...
Russian propaganda seeping out, and then Putin going, or if not Putin himself directly, but his circle of oligarchs saying, this is something we can take advantage of, and how much is directly his, like, look at what I did.
Like, that kind of a shit, you know?
dan friesen
I think, as it relates to Alex, he's taking in, like, RT and Sputnik, and he's getting the Russian line as the truth, because it's more appealing to him.
He has this idea that it's a masculine culture, and that they've kicked out the globalists, and therefore their media is obviously much more reliable than ours.
Ours is just full of propagandists and CIA plants that are in the media, and so he just...
Has no reason to doubt things that come from their outlets.
jordan holmes
So I think that's a piece of it.
It's mind-boggling to try and see through these people's eyes.
dan friesen
It's very weird.
jordan holmes
Because that seems...
It could not be more obvious that RT is a state-controlled media outlet that only shows what the state wants you to see.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, it can't be more obvious.
So how can you not catch it?
dan friesen
I don't know.
The way is you don't want to.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, you're absolutely right.
It doesn't fit with what you...
I mean, I do understand, though, because if you've built your entire life...
Like, if you're Alex Jones, in 2015, he's 40-ish.
Maybe a hundred.
Who knows?
dan friesen
Yeah, he's timeless.
His soul has migrated.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
He's talking with his ancestors.
jordan holmes
So you've built your entire life around this ethos.
dan friesen
Globalism.
jordan holmes
And just like you said, we have this splitting point.
Dark timeline versus the light timeline.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Wherein either all of these people really confront themselves and say, what I've believed for the longest length of time is wrong.
Or they double down.
dan friesen
They double down.
jordan holmes
And of course they double down.
dan friesen
Well, at least in the case of Alex, certainly.
I can't speak to whatever is happening with political figures and shit like that.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But in terms of Alex, yeah, he's like, oh.
jordan holmes
I would actually say that the entire politics of 2015 was the firm cementing of there will never be a shared reality again.
dan friesen
Oh, totally.
jordan holmes
Totally.
It started when Fox News started.
dan friesen
Fuck off, man.
It started like Reagan, probably.
jordan holmes
You know what?
You're absolutely right.
dan friesen
I don't know if it was even before that.
jordan holmes
That was when the billionaire campaign of lobbying really took off.
Yeah.
But that, I feel like, is whenever it's like, this is how it's going to be forever.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I agree that it's where things ramped up to a horrifying extent.
I think it's because people realized that an election was coming up.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And they realized that...
jordan holmes
It was win or lose at that point.
dan friesen
Yeah, and the trends in society that we could see were like, well, if something doesn't happen, Democrats are never going to lose another election because that's just the way society is going.
People are becoming more progressive.
People are becoming more accepting, more opening.
And that is what the Democratic Party largely represents, especially over the Republican Party.
And unless a third viable party were to exist...
There doesn't seem like there's any shot there.
jordan holmes
And the GOP really embraced it because they were the ones who realized that the only way we win elections is to lean into being the white supremacist party.
Because if you look at that...
The GOP autopsy that they did on the 2012 election.
It was all about, we need to return back to the Big Ten.
We need to expand.
We need to find more Latino voters.
We need to do all of this stuff.
And they took none of that advice.
dan friesen
And didn't need to.
jordan holmes
And didn't need to.
dan friesen
Because they gerrymandered the hell out of shit.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And purged voter rolls, blah, blah, blah.
jordan holmes
They went straight to white supremacy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And God bless them.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
No.
Elves bless them.
dan friesen
God bless them because they give us something to fight back against.
They are the Illuminati of our...
jordan holmes
And that's how we grow.
That's how we grow as people.
dan friesen
So on the 8th, Alex Jones has a long interview.
jordan holmes
That and genetic memory.
That's also how we grow as people.
dan friesen
That's how you learn.
Anthony Gucci already comes in for a really long interview about how great their products are and about how terrible immigrants are.
They're trying to...
jordan holmes
They're hitting both at the same time?
dan friesen
They're trying to scare people about the immigrant waves that are going to come while simultaneously, you know, being like, all our products are fucking awesome.
They're spending way more time on the show trying to sell stuff.
Like, you know, we have these periodic visits from Dr. Group who comes in for, like, these hour-long sessions.
And now we're seeing, like, Anthony Gucciardi is on almost every day doing something.
To try and sell product.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that is not unremarkable.
It's part of the lead up to the money bomb.
jordan holmes
Especially if we're in the money bomb.
Yeah.
In the money bomb world we exist in, it's going to ramp up and ramp up hard.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So after that, Alex Jones has an interview with John McAfee.
jordan holmes
Who created- McAfee.
dan friesen
McAfee Security.
unidentified
The McAfee.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
The guy who infects every Windows computer with junkware.
dan friesen
That'd be him.
He's also the guy who may or may not have murdered his neighbor in South America.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
dan friesen
I don't know if this is the case.
His neighbor wound up dead and he fled.
He was living down south of the border and his neighbor ended up dead and he was being pursued by the police.
I don't know if he did it.
I have no idea, but I do know that he fled.
And then his house burned down.
jordan holmes
Wait, and then his house burned down?
dan friesen
As I understand the timeline, yes.
I admit I haven't done a ton of research into it, but McAfee is a wild dude.
He's a wild dude.
jordan holmes
McAfee did that shit.
dan friesen
I'm not ready to say that.
That's on you, man.
That's on you.
jordan holmes
McAfee is the OJ of...
Computer software.
dan friesen
And weird goatees.
jordan holmes
Never seen his face.
dan friesen
He has a weird goatee.
unidentified
Good for him.
dan friesen
So McAfee is on and Alex is trying to get the exclusive out of him that he's running for president.
jordan holmes
John McAfee.
dan friesen
And Alex is super excited about it because McAfee has a deep libertarian past and what have you.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And anybody who...
jordan holmes
Like a lot of those software giants do.
unidentified
Sure.
jordan holmes
A lot of those guys have a full-on, like, we're going to build our own utopia out of Uber.
dan friesen
Why not?
If you can create a world online, why couldn't you create a world in the real world?
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
dan friesen
So Alex is super excited about it because anyone who pays attention to Alex would make a great president, obviously.
So he's...
McAfee is being like, his whole storyline is, my aides, they went out and they filed paperwork for me to run for president.
I don't know if I'm going to run for president.
And Alex is like, are you giving us the exclusive?
Are you going to announce here on Infowars that you're running for president?
And he's like, I can give you the exclusive that they filed some papers.
Fuck you, man.
jordan holmes
That's really not a great exclusive.
dan friesen
He keeps being like, if I run, I'm going to win.
jordan holmes
Then why don't you run?
dan friesen
He didn't run and he didn't win.
But in the middle of their interview, Alex Jones says this and it really troubles me.
alex jones
That's why I like Ted Nugent is he's real.
And I know nothing against the NRA.
They used to be really bad 10 years ago.
Now they're really good.
We've got to radicalize the liberty movement because we face a radical globalist threat.
Milk toasting it won't beat it.
dan friesen
I really am scared of that mentality because all of his...
jordan holmes
That's exactly what he did.
dan friesen
Because all of his stuff is based on lies and fear.
It's not based on reality.
So he perceives an extreme enemy that he's up against, and therefore it's okay for him to radicalize his base.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
Which is essentially what terrorists do.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's exactly what terrorists do.
I mean, the thing is...
ISIS has a better argument than he does for radicalizing their base.
dan friesen
With stopping short of advocating anything ISIS does, looking at it purely, just on a logic basis, their argument does make more sense.
jordan holmes
They're fighting a real enemy.
dan friesen
Their desired goals are terrible.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And those don't make sense.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
But the idea of fighting back certainly does.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course.
Especially in their situation.
dan friesen
And the idea of extreme measures.
jordan holmes
Imagine if we had a terrorist group that was fighting against an imaginary enemy.
dan friesen
Without explosives, we do.
jordan holmes
We do.
dan friesen
We absolutely do.
jordan holmes
It's the liberty movement.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Was radicalized partly by Alex Jones.
dan friesen
Partly.
I mean, he's the most mainstream voice of the people who radicalized them.
Behind the scenes, there are tons of those websites.
There's a whole Byzantine network of monsters out there.
But yeah, he does.
He's responsible for a lot of terrible shit.
In the end of this episode, we get a phone call from Old Man House Phone.
unidentified
He calls back in.
jordan holmes
I love me some old man house phone.
dan friesen
I did not pull a clip from it because it's boring, but he wants to talk to John McAfee about guns.
That's fun.
It's just important to point out whenever house phone calls in.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So we move on to the 10th.
jordan holmes
Hold on, let me back up real quick.
dan friesen
I'm sorry, the 9th.
jordan holmes
I think I've forgotten.
Has Rapoport showed up?
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
John Rapoport is not in the mix.
jordan holmes
Rapoport is still not in the mix.
dan friesen
Not in the mix.
And I'll tell you, to the end of this, past the money bomb, still not there.
jordan holmes
Still not in the mix.
dan friesen
No.
Let's move on, Jordan, to September 9th.
On this show, Alex Jones is very obsessed with a story out of Pittsburgh, where a gentleman, he runs a barber shop, and he got fined $750 for refusing to cut the hair of a lady.
Okay, man.
Because it's a dude's barber shop!
And Alex is furious about this.
jordan holmes
Like barbershop, like the movie Barbershop, or barbershop like a white dude in a small town?
dan friesen
Second one.
There we go.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, I doubt the first one's showing up on Infowars.
alex jones
No.
dan friesen
A lady went into the shop and they said, we are not going to get, you can't come in here.
And so she was like, alright, I'm going to complain about this.
And he got fined $750.
Alex Jones presents it as, hey, these guys just don't have the technology to cut ladies' hair.
You know, like, they don't know how to do it, and there's a reasonable point to be made there, but if you actually look into the story, you can find that this dude is basically running the man show out of a barber shop, and his reason for not wanting to, like, serve a woman who came in was less about, I don't know how to cut your hair, and it was more predicated on, this is where dudes go to hang out.
jordan holmes
Oh.
dan friesen
He ends up calling in, and they have an interview on a later show where he's like, Men come in here to have a beer and make jokes and fart.
And they can't do that if ladies are in here.
I'm like, you should have gotten fined.
jordan holmes
Yeah, don't call yourself a business then.
Call yourself a clubhouse.
Like, what are you doing?
dan friesen
Yeah, that mentality is...
jordan holmes
Put your shit up in a tree, you idiot.
What is this, the little rascals?
What's happening?
dan friesen
Absolutely.
But the reason that Alex Jones has a leg to stand on in terms of his complaints is that he doesn't really necessarily believe...
That businesses should have to serve everybody.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
I believe that based on his libertarian beliefs, if pressed, he would say that a business could deny service to African Americans if they wanted to.
jordan holmes
And the free market would sort it out.
dan friesen
Right, exactly.
jordan holmes
Even though it has been conclusively proven for all of time that the free market would not sort it out.
dan friesen
And the last great example of that was, of course, Chick-fil-A.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Did not work out.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Didn't do shit.
dan friesen
But that is what is behind his sort of support of this barbershop.
And it's super whack if you actually look at the details.
But who cares?
jordan holmes
That'd be more.
It's more interesting to me if the guy really just doesn't know how to cut ladies hair.
Sure.
unidentified
That was his excuse for it.
jordan holmes
Like if his defense in court was like, dude, I never actually went to school.
I don't know how to cut this lady's hair.
I'm just gonna fuck up her hair.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Then I'd be like, oh, yeah, fair.
dan friesen
I mean, that's borderline reasonable.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But his position is not.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
So, something way more important.
jordan holmes
This is only where I cut hair of dicks.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Something way more important happens on the September 9th show.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That day, or the day before, Donald Trump came out and said some stuff about immigrants.
And...
Alex Jones has a very strong response to it, and it might not be what you expect.
alex jones
We're going to go out to break with Donald Trump, saying we've got to accept the immigrants.
You know, he tells the truth about these Arab countries and African countries won't take them, but that we've got to because we have the moral high ground.
The whole world's collapsing into depression.
We can't take billions of people, especially if they're put on welfare.
This is suicide.
Let's go to the clip.
donald j trump
Well, it's a serious problem.
We haven't seen anything like it since the Second World War, and it's getting worse and worse.
And I was actually impressed in one way, but surprised that Merkel in Germany allowed this to happen because they're really flowing through all over Europe.
And if you notice, Russia's not taking, and China's not taking, and the Gulf states, whether you look at Saudi Arabia or Qatar or any of them, they're taking none.
But some of them are, and some of them are actually being very generous.
It just, really, I wonder, you know, where all these...
alex jones
Really, Donald, being generous with the Germans that pay some of the highest taxes in Europe, or the French that pay 84% on average for people to come in and get put on welfare?
I mean, you read the scams that third-world immigrants run all across the place.
Somalis up in Minnesota.
Afghans in Germany.
I mean, they just don't pay the taxes.
They do whatever they want.
They run black market operations and they get welfare.
And then, oh, I want to commend Merkel.
She's so generous.
Hey, Trump, shut your fat mouth, you punk.
I knew you'd start flipping.
jordan holmes
Whoa!
alex jones
My gut told me something.
How about you give your $5 billion to them?
Okay?
jordan holmes
Holy shit!
alex jones
I'm telling you, man.
He was against abortion, then he was for it, then he was against it, all the rest of it.
He loves Hillary Clinton.
dan friesen
Whoa.
jordan holmes
Wow, is that intense.
dan friesen
So, this is bizarre.
jordan holmes
That is wild.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Alex Jones has taken an anti-Donald Trump stance on September 9th, 2015.
That's more...
Like, vitriol, that's more passionate.
jordan holmes
He called him a punk.
dan friesen
Yeah, once you shut your fat mouth, that's more interested.
jordan holmes
That's exactly what he said to Schiff.
He just didn't say, fill your hand.
dan friesen
Yeah, goddamn cocksucker.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Well, like, that is more passionate than all of the stuff he said about his mob ties and shit like that in the past episodes we've gone over.
That's super bizarre.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That, I don't know what to make of that, quite frankly.
jordan holmes
The moment Trump is not a white supremacist.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
How do...
jordan holmes
What?
How are we still doing...
It should be over by now!
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
What?
There's so many goddamn twists and turns.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So on this show, after this, he has an interview with the sheriff.
The guy who's...
He's not the sheriff.
jordan holmes
Just the sheriff?
Like a Cormac McCarthy character?
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
He has an interview with a judge whose eyes are burning fire.
dan friesen
He has an interview with a guy who's running for sheriff in Houston.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And this guy is nuts.
He says that he thinks that Obama is creating racial strife in order to cancel the 2016 elections.
Spoiler alert, he does not win the election for sheriff.
jordan holmes
God damn it if...
Oh, man.
If Obama had just canceled him...
Good stuff.
dan friesen
We'd have to deal with the militia uprising, but I think that would be easier.
jordan holmes
We could have gotten the revolution out of the way pretty quick and then just moved on.
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
So after that, he has an interview with Ted Nugent.
The Nuge calls in.
he put up the nude signal on the past day when he was talking to john mcafee you heard that in the little clip there yeah he's like i was just honest he's real he's like i haven't talked to the nude in a while so he gets nude to call in yeah and he talks about how uh his show on the sportsman channel has been canceled and it's because everybody's afraid of guns he's got the best ratings ever and i don't think any of that's true i think it's just a convenient way for them to play victim about And it's very boring.
So...
jordan holmes
Like, it's hard for them to find an excuse to play victim about the Second Amendment.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Also, I would like to wonder, why was Alex saying that ten years ago the NRA was very bad and now it's very good?
dan friesen
Oh, because they weren't that extreme about the Second Amendment.
They had gone into a period where they were sort of kowtowing to anti-gun interests and being like, well, maybe you don't need semi-automatics.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe that is reasonable.
And because of these other people, these more extreme gun groups, the NRA got molded into a more extreme organization.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
And Alex believes that gun people should be on the offensive.
And actually he has an interview later on.
jordan holmes
Man, hearing that sentence does not make me feel good.
dan friesen
Later on.
jordan holmes
Gun people should be on the offensive is the problem with America.
dan friesen
It's pretty scary.
He later has an interview with a guy who runs a, like, Citizens for Gun Rights organization that Ted Nugent was involved with, and it's a little bit scary, and they make some very false claims, but we'll deal with that a little bit down the road.
So, on the 9th, Alex had that thing where he called Trump a punk.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Then, on the 10th, Trump backpedaled a little bit on his, man, maybe the immigrants, maybe we don't have to take as many, and Alex was like, wow, good, he's backpedaling.
unidentified
But he was just mad because he changed his mind about stuff.
Right.
jordan holmes
His pure anger was about the fact that he flip-flops on dumb positions.
dan friesen
And he's like, I called it all along.
I knew there was a reason not to trust you.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and then whenever he changes his mind again, he's like, well, okay, now we're back on board.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's back, pal, and that's good.
It's very weird.
Wow.
It's super bizarre.
jordan holmes
That's bananas.
dan friesen
Yeah, so on this episode on the 10th, he has Mark Dice.
He has a video where Mark Dice goes out to the streets and tries to get people to sign a petition.
To ban the sale of the Bible on Amazon and at Barnes& Noble.
unidentified
God damn it.
jordan holmes
Mark Dice is the worst.
dan friesen
Yeah, but here's the thing.
A lot of people sign it, but you can tell.
Again, it's a thing where they're like, fine, fuck, I'll just sign it, leave me alone.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But then beyond that, based on free market, based on Alex Jones' sort of libertarian beliefs, you should be able to not sell the Bible.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if you can refuse service to a lady getting a haircut, you should be able to refuse selling the Bible.
dan friesen
I don't understand where the line between your belief in religious supremacism and libertarian...
What is more important to you?
Religious baiting or your principles?
Your phony-ass principles?
It's insane.
So Mark Dice almost gets into a fight with a guy on the street.
jordan holmes
Alright, now I'm in.
Now I'm way in.
dan friesen
Some guy is really mad at him because he's trying to ban the Bible.
But again, it's not Ban the Bible.
It's just, don't sell it on Amazon or at Barnes& Noble.
jordan holmes
Wait, so...
So somebody got really mad at him.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Why did they leave it in the fucking clip?
dan friesen
Because the guy gets really mad at him, and he's like, no, no, no.
Hey, look, I'm doing a hidden camera show.
We're trying to point out that people are stupid for signing this.
And the guy's like, I don't believe you.
Fuck off.
And then Mark Dice chases him down, and he's like, no, man, no, no, no.
jordan holmes
You get it.
dan friesen
Look, the camera's right over there.
It's so desperate and sad.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's awful.
unidentified
That's pathetic.
dan friesen
Yeah, Mark Dice is the worst.
jordan holmes
That's really sad.
dan friesen
Alex Jones tells a story about harassing a lady at the hike and bike trail because she had a bumper sticker.
Which is nonsense.
jordan holmes
That's better than elves are we are elves.
dan friesen
I'm just giving you a rundown of stuff because we can't possibly cover everything.
But man, that one was wild.
jordan holmes
We've already spent an hour and a half on two clips.
dan friesen
I don't believe the story about it.
Harassing this lady at the hike and bike trail?
I think it's made up.
But even in his made up story, he's still a dick.
jordan holmes
What is he doing at the hike and bike trail?
dan friesen
He's there all the time.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
He's taking his kids there all the time.
He tells stories about the hike and bike trail at least every third episode.
jordan holmes
Well, maybe he's not a terrible father.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
Give him his kids back.
dan friesen
When he was...
He has some custody.
When you tell him that story about the immigrants who were fishing and cooking the fish outside, that was at the hike and bike trail.
jordan holmes
That was at the hike and bike trail.
dan friesen
He later gets an ear infection from the lake at the hike and bike trail.
He misses two days of work because of it.
But he uses it as an opportunity to sell Silver Bullet.
His colloidal silver product.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
Dude, at this point, when you say he uses it as an opportunity to sell silver bullet, I'm halfway like, does he think werewolves are real?
dan friesen
He might.
So we're in the 10th.
jordan holmes
Werewolves are the original Chimera.
dan friesen
Alex Jones has a lot of really bad stuff in the next couple days.
And here is one of those things.
alex jones
I tell ya.
unidentified
You talk about...
A death wish.
alex jones
But see, the criminals that run Europe that have hijacked it can get away with this.
They can get away with anything.
So it's not just a fetish to smear garbage all over Europe.
I got stacks of articles of women being pulled out of cars, raped, children being raped.
They're like, well, that's part of the radical Islamic culture to rape your daughter.
You see, They're kicking out of their countries, their poorest, their most criminal, their most degenerate, their most mentally ill.
And a bunch of 18-year-old, 20-year-old troublemaker crooks and ISIS people that folks don't want in their countries anymore.
We have them posting on their Facebook.
I'm here.
I'm in Berlin.
Look at me.
I'm a jihadi.
unidentified
I fought.
alex jones
I caught a bunch of Christians' heads off.
Come hang out with me, ladies.
And a lot of the German women turn into trendy TV and stuff and go, absolutely.
And that's the cool thing is to get, you know.
Beat up by a gangbanger or, you know, have his name tattooed all over him.
Or the next best thing is to be, you know, slapped around and put in a slave pit by a radical jihad.
I mean, they got all these women, teenagers all over the world getting on airplanes and flooding to go be in dirt shacks and raped by over 100 men.
Then, of course, they're begging for mommy and daddy after, but that doesn't happen.
You just get taken out of the field and shot in the back of the head.
What is he fucking talking about?
Gloria Steinem loves it, and so is Rachel Maddow.
jordan holmes
Steinem does not love that.
alex jones
Why don't you go over there and hang out with your little jihadi pals that little CIA Anderson Cooper promoted in the last four years as the Arab Spring run by the filthy White House.
dan friesen
That's so close to a Dennis Miller.
jordan holmes
The Arab Spring is run by the White House?
dan friesen
The Arab Spring was run by the White House, according to Alex, yes.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And the CIA was behind it, and Anderson Cooper has a past with the CIA.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And ergo, he was not really over there overseas in his capacity as a CNN reporter.
He was, I don't know.
jordan holmes
Inciting.
dan friesen
Yeah, I guess so.
jordan holmes
The Arab Spring, I guess?
dan friesen
There are a couple stories that have come out of people, like young white girls going to join ISIS.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
In the same way that there are a couple of stories that have come out of young white dudes who've gone over to join.
Yeah.
unidentified
And it generally does not end up all that well.
jordan holmes
No.
unidentified
There are also stories of the opposite as well.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
unidentified
People going to join the actual Syrian resistance and fight against.
dan friesen
the horrific Assad.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
Or even trying to come here as refugees.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh, crazy.
dan friesen
But yeah, that...
What he does is he takes, like, again, it's these kernels.
It's these, like, one or two stories that have come out, and he embellishes it to be, like, there's thousands of young white girls who just want to go get beat by a Muslim, because that's cool.
These trendy women just want to, it's so disgusting.
jordan holmes
Well, there is a Pornhub channel.
dan friesen
I can tell you this.
There's not.
jordan holmes
There is definitely not.
I just wanted to make you snort.
dan friesen
That's bad.
Your impulse and his.
Both bad.
But it has nothing on this next clip.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
This is the first of two very severe historical misrepresentations that Alex makes that we'll discuss on today's show.
And I think it's probably the worst of the two.
I'll let you decide.
alex jones
Because Hitler was a project of the elites in this country.
unidentified
I'm already out.
jordan holmes
I'm already out.
alex jones
And they shut Hitler up.
Hitler was not good, by the way.
But it's beyond what they tell you.
jordan holmes
Hitler was bad.
Got it.
alex jones
Roosevelt wouldn't take the Jews because the liberal Jewish groups in New York City said they hadn't paid a ransom to them to get out.
And I've had Dr. Pachenik on, who was a Jew who lost family in Europe when they fled to Cuba.
They fled to Cuba on a boat.
Right after he was born.
Because New York City wouldn't take him because the Jews said, you didn't pay up.
Oh, is it Andy Smith that doesn't want to kill Jews?
I guess it is, isn't it?
If I was a real Nazi collaborator, then it would be okay if I was George Soros or Arnold Schwarzenegger that wears Nazi uniforms and says he wants to be Hitler.
That's okay.
But if I point out that the evil, corrupt people like George Soros, who was involved then, but people above him, They robbed the Jews and sucked off the Jews and told them, you either pay a ransom or you go to Israel.
And then when they said, okay, we'll go to Israel, they said, still you're going to pay a ransom.
The average ransom calculates out to $1 million today.
And all the poor Jews or the middle class Jews that didn't have it, they got sent to be murdered.
And then the very Jews that helped murder them.
Sit around and create a Holocaust narrative and project it on as guilt onto the American people as the national narrative as if we were involved in it.
unidentified
As if the average American that fought Hitler or whose grandfathers fought Hitler was bad.
alex jones
So we have to let that same Jewish mafia that helped kill the Jews with Hitler engage in all these criminal activities or we're anti-Semitic?
I say feel your hand, Nazi-loving scum, and go straight to hell where you came from.
dan friesen
My friends, it is official.
We can now say that Alex Jones is a Holocaust denier.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Or at least a Holocaust revisionist.
jordan holmes
Un...wow.
dan friesen
That's pretty wild stuff.
jordan holmes
Unreal.
dan friesen
So if you look into it, there are a bunch, you know, like, there were people who were able to make bribes to get themselves out.
Of Nazi-occupied territory.
jordan holmes
Yeah, not to New York City Jews.
dan friesen
You could get out of camps if you bribe people with a lot of money because they're evil, but they want some money.
jordan holmes
Everybody's got to get paid.
dan friesen
Right.
Alex is extrapolating that to be like, oh, it was Jewish groups who were keeping these poor Jews in these camps to be killed because they didn't pay up.
jordan holmes
That's amazing.
dan friesen
Because that plays on anti-Semitic tropes.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
It plays on a kernel of truth in the sense that some people were able to buy their way out.
jordan holmes
And it does play on the fact that America absolutely denied Jewish refugees.
dan friesen
You know why?
jordan holmes
Because of the same...
Fucking type of people who are denying Muslim refugees now!
So that's why they're rewriting this goddamn history.
So they can't, so it's like, well, it wasn't us.
We're the ones who aren't fucking bringing it.
No, that's fucking bullshit.
If Alex had been around in the 1930s, he would have screamed about how Jews shouldn't be allowed in there.
dan friesen
Too dangerous.
jordan holmes
Because they're German.
They're German.
They're secret Nazis.
That fucking bullshit.
dan friesen
What better way to sneak Nazis into America than for them to be Jewish?
They play on your sympathies, and then before you know it, they're here.
They're making little reichs within our country.
jordan holmes
Even though the very fucking anti-Semitic beliefs that Hitler got, he got from...
Intellectuals here in the 1910s and 20s.
So this whole fucking bullshit, this whole fucking bullshit about rewriting history to make your team...
Like, if you're somebody now who says all lives matter, do not.
Do not pretend for a second that during the civil rights era, you wouldn't have been like, well, I get why Martin Luther King Jr. is angry, but I really don't like what he's saying.
dan friesen
I'm pulling on my...
The neck of my shirt, because the next clip that we're going to play...
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no, no!
God damn it, dear!
dan friesen
It starts with him in the middle of a rant about all lives matter.
unidentified
No!
jordan holmes
God damn it!
dan friesen
Fucking Christ.
Before we get to that, I want to just tell everybody, in case you're unaware, the idea of Holocaust denial is much more complicated than just someone saying it didn't happen.
There's a lot of schools of thought within...
The Holocaust denial community.
There are people who believe, like, it did happen, but there weren't gas chambers.
Or it did happen, but they were work camps.
They weren't death camps.
It did happen, but the reason that people died was because of malnutrition, not because of a concerted effort on the Nazis' part to kill the Jews.
Or there's another branch that's just like, hey, yeah, six million Jews died, but...
A bunch of other people died, so why do we care?
There's all these branches, and the thing that Alex is expressing is one of the branches of Holocaust denial.
This is incredibly disgusting sort of thing to hear from him.
jordan holmes
And I'm still pissed about this after our last episode.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That is exactly the same shit that people will try with the alt-right versus the alt-light.
If you are minimizing the Holocaust, you are denying it.
dan friesen
In many ways, yes.
jordan holmes
Full stop.
You are not pretending to be more fucking intelligent or more researched than anybody else.
dan friesen
You're trying to butt actually.
unidentified
You are denying it.
dan friesen
You're trying to butt actually the Holocaust.
jordan holmes
You're a fucking monster.
Equivalent to somebody saying that it didn't happen.
Equivalent to somebody saying that it should have happened.
You're a fucking monster.
dan friesen
Full stop.
I think that you sort of hit the nail on the head earlier, and the reason...
That he engages in this sort of thing is that there is a part of him that realizes that his mentality is what was the problem in our country then.
But be that as it may, Alex Jones does have a little thought about all lives matter.
But that's not the most important part of this clip.
It just is where he begins.
He's ranting about all lives matter and how Democrats have to apologize for saying all lives matter when all lives do matter.
It leads to another really weird sort of religious rant that I actually think is much more interesting.
alex jones
But the rapture is a fraud.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
alex jones
There's the Battle of Armageddon.
Christ comes back.
The dead in Christ are raised.
And then those living spend a thousand years with Christ here on Earth.
That's what the Bible says.
And they've got it that there's a teleporter machine.
unidentified
What?
alex jones
Whatever.
Let's just say God the devil isn't real for the sake of argument.
unidentified
Where is that?
jordan holmes
Where is that in the Bible?
Where is that in Revelation that there's a teleporter machine?
dan friesen
I want to be clear.
That's not referencing something that he talked about before this book started.
jordan holmes
Wait, it just came out that there was a teleporter machine.
dan friesen
I don't know what that's in reference to.
jordan holmes
No, that's what he's talking about with the rapture.
That's what he's saying.
He's saying that the rapture isn't what people think it is.
It's a fucking teleporter machine.
dan friesen
That very well may be the case.
Anyway, here we go.
Let's get back.
alex jones
Whatever.
Let's just say God the devil isn't real for the sake of argument.
dan friesen
Fair.
alex jones
I'm going to fight putting fluoride in the water.
I'm going to fight aborting babies and selling their body parts.
Fair.
And I don't care if twiddly-dee and twiddly-dumb preachers get up there on television in front of their crowds and follow their 501c3 and give their government script.
Stephen, finish up your points, brother.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Wait, there's a guy on hold?
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
I kept it there as a punchline, just because that's great.
What I think is really fascinating is to look at the preachers that he does have on, as opposed to the preachers he complains about.
Because he's had this guy named Pastor David James Manning on a bunch.
Are you aware of that guy?
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
David Manning is one of the craziest black nationalist homophobic pastors in the world.
He runs a place called Atla Ministry in New York.
unidentified
Not happy about that.
dan friesen
And the most notable thing he's done recently is a couple years back, maybe a year and a half ago or so, he came out and said that the gay agenda is way more pervasive than we think.
And what they're doing is that they're putting semen in the lattes at Starbucks.
alex jones
All right.
dan friesen
That's how you get the frothy milk.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
That's how you get the frothy milk.
jordan holmes
That makes as much sense as anything else.
dan friesen
There's semen in the lattes.
I'm pronouncing it like that because that's how he pronounces it, and it's fun.
unidentified
I know.
jordan holmes
That's the weirdest.
dan friesen
It's super fun.
jordan holmes
There's semen in the lattes.
dan friesen
Yeah, because if you go into Starbucks and you get a latte, it has semen in it, and then you get a taste for semen, because the gays like to eat semen, and they have a lot of fun.
So you'll associate these good times that you have with lattes with semen.
Oh, man.
It's wild.
But Alex has him on as a guest pretty regularly.
Not super regularly, but at least, like, I've found at least ten times he's been on.
At least, like, seven.
It's wild.
jordan holmes
All right, all right.
No, I'm moving on.
I have no opinions on that.
Fucking...
True?
Untrue?
I'm fine with both.
dan friesen
I'd like to say, just like, full disclosure, I used to manage a Starbucks, and there's no seasoning in lattes.
They get, uh...
jordan holmes
I was waiting for you to...
Full disclosure.
I drink a lot of semen, but just recreationally.
No sex involved.
I gotta get my fix.
dan friesen
You get market-produced milk, and it's put into a steaming wand.
You have a cup, and the steaming wand froths the milk.
It's not jizz.
He complains about churches all the time, and yet he'll have someone like him on.
It's fucking bizarre.
jordan holmes
Everything.
Everything.
dan friesen
Nothing makes sense.
jordan holmes
Everything is bizarre right now.
dan friesen
So, like I told you, they're doing a lot of sales.
They're trying to boost sales.
jordan holmes
Trying to get the shit out.
dan friesen
And it's like every single day, there's something.
Like this big Anthony Gucciardi appearance, Dr. Group coming on.
On the 10th, they have an even bigger thing happens.
alex jones
We're going to go to our guest, Steve Wetzel, here in just a moment, who I asked to come on the show.
I've been in talks with these folks.
We're going to spend about 10 minutes on this and get back into the news.
I've been in talks.
Well, they've been a sponsor for four years.
Three to four years.
But I've been in talks for two years to do this.
And finally, we got it all done.
I'll be honest with you.
I went out and talked to some of the other top providers and they just couldn't provide something as good as as low a cost that was as high quality.
Because I believe in treating people like I want to be treated.
dan friesen
This is fucking boring.
He launches a line of survival foods.
He has a group called My Patriot Supply and their private labeling.
Like an entire line of, you know, you get buckets in your house of food.
So, I mean, he's just really trying to expand what he has for people to buy.
So, I mean, it does feed into this, we need to make money.
We need to make money fucking fast.
So you get a little bit of a markup on this new thing.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's a good new revenue stream, especially when you're fucking spending all your time scaring people.
So there's that.
Also on this show, super fun to note, Alex Jones legit forgets what year 9-11 happened.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
dan friesen
It's 2015.
jordan holmes
Oh, fantastic.
dan friesen
It's 2015.
He says, it's the 15th anniversary coming up of 9-11.
And then he's like, hold on.
Is that right?
15th anniversary.
He even thinks about it.
He's like, that's it.
jordan holmes
That's it.
dan friesen
It's always just fun to remember when people forget 9-11.
Anyway, let's get on to 9-11.
September 11th, 2015 is the next day.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
We're actually doing a 9-11 episode.
Forget about that.
dan friesen
He doesn't talk about it almost at all.
The 9-11 episode in 2015 is very, like...
It's kind of blase.
jordan holmes
Hey, let's be honest.
dan friesen
Kind of bland.
jordan holmes
Aren't we all a little bit done with 9-11?
dan friesen
I've moved on.
So here is something that he does have to say on 9-11.
jordan holmes
At a certain point, you know, seeing 2,000 people die versus the half a million civilians that we killed in Iraq, kind of like, you know what?
It evens out.
I think I'm good on 9-11.
I don't think we're the good guy anymore.
dan friesen
No, no, no, no.
So, oh, on 9-11, that was the day that he has the interview with the guy with the barbershop that we talked about earlier.
jordan holmes
Yes, yeah.
dan friesen
So he ends up having this interview and the guy is a sleazy semen dude.
He just, he gave me a very bad vibe.
jordan holmes
Sleazy semen dude.
dan friesen
These dudes can't fart if ladies are around.
I like them to fart.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
dan friesen
That's sort of one of his arguments.
I have my man cave here.
Dudes can't tell jokes and fart if women are around.
That is legitimately, like, what his argument comes down to.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
But, more importantly...
Alex has something he needs you to be really afraid about on 9-11, and here's that.
alex jones
They are going to turn the Middle East over to radical Islam, merge with communism.
jordan holmes
That's not how that works at all.
alex jones
That's the checkmate move by the New World Order and the central banks and Saudi Arabia.
Do you understand that?
Do you have that through your head, okay?
And then if the states don't go along with it here in the United States, The globalists are going to bomb stuff and say the patriots did it, or they're going to find reasons to indict people, like the Texas Attorney General.
I know they're trying to indict the governor right now, and I'm not going to get any more of that.
I mean, do you understand?
They've got feds following the governor around.
jordan holmes
Don't they always?
Don't they always have feds following the government?
dan friesen
Yeah, but the governor was in trouble for some insider trading stuff.
jordan holmes
Yeah, illegal things.
Things that were illegal that he was doing.
dan friesen
Yeah, Alex doesn't seem...
He seems to think he's being targeted or...
jordan holmes
See, that's the one thing.
If Alex lived in Illinois, he'd be like, well, of course they're following around one of our governors.
He's probably committed so many crimes.
dan friesen
So many crimes.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Even our best governors have committed at least most crimes.
dan friesen
Light crimes.
But...
Those things are things you need to be afraid of.
The idea that they're going to do false flags blaming the patriots.
The fact that they're going to overthrow the Middle East and merge it with communism.
jordan holmes
Preemptively protecting any white nationalist crime that occurs.
dan friesen
A lot of that is stuff you need to be afraid of.
But Alex Jones has some more information that you should be more afraid of immediately.
jordan holmes
What's that?
alex jones
...all the time right now trying to find him with a crooked toenail to throw him in jail.
And by the way, the FBI...
Doesn't like doing it.
I mean, most people in the FBI are not really bad.
They're compartmentalized.
But it's so dirty now, they're just going, I cannot believe we're this evil.
And I'm not going to get into my sources, folks, but I mean, I have sources.
jordan holmes
Donald Trump Jr.
Not yet.
alex jones
That's a problem with my job, man, is I know so much more than I can even say because I can't reveal sources.
But the reason I know they're making their move is it's bad.
It's bad.
They're looking at a whole bunch of governors they're going to arrest.
They're looking at taking out people in legislatures.
Government's even looking at sending hit teams around to kill key people that aren't going to go along with this.
And all these generals that are now telling the truth and stuff, you know they're going to send a hit team to kill you and your family, right?
They'll say you suicided your wife and kids.
So I'm going to tell the generals and everybody else something right now.
You're going to preside over the destruction of America and the world sliding into a new dark age and you...
Are going to end up getting locked in prison or killed, probably.
Because of your inaction and your cowards.
I mean, I'm going to say it right now.
dan friesen
Spoiler alert, none of that happened.
jordan holmes
That's a really, really great way to describe the GOP under Trump right now.
dan friesen
How do you mean?
Cowards?
jordan holmes
Like, you guys, because of your inaction, are going to wind up in jail.
And you're like, oh yeah.
That's probably true.
dan friesen
So hit team.
jordan holmes
Fucking sooner or later.
And let's be honest.
Now, it's entirely possible that we don't make it through this whole section of democracy.
dan friesen
Very possible.
jordan holmes
Now, historically, though, America's made it through shit.
We've done a lot.
Yeah, that's true.
And as much as they want to believe that once they enact the GOP agenda and they restrict voting rights and all that shit, it's not like our voting rights haven't been restricted before.
It's not like a large...
It's not like women got the vote in 1776.
You know, like that kind of thing.
So if they don't pull it off perfectly, sooner or later we're going to fucking come after them.
Right?
So if the GOP doesn't win this, 100%.
dan friesen
And it seems unlikely.
jordan holmes
Sooner or later, they're going to get fucked, and they don't understand that.
dan friesen
No, but we're not saying there's going to be hit teams.
jordan holmes
I mean, fucking, are we?
Are we not?
Are we not saying that?
dan friesen
Are we not saying that?
Now you're turning into Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Are we not saying that?
I'm just saying, are we not saying that?
dan friesen
You've got to stop jonesing.
jordan holmes
That's our new thing.
That's our new thing.
dan friesen
When we get too close to Alex Jones, stop Jones.
jordan holmes
We're no longer doing the points.
We're doing stop Jones.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So that's wild.
That didn't happen.
Hit teams.
Did not take out governors or legislators.
jordan holmes
What kind of lunacy would occur if you...
dan friesen
I'd like to point out, for all of you listening who think that we're a little bit off, it's not the wine.
Jordan is watching the baseball game on his phone.
jordan holmes
I am not doing that.
dan friesen
Jordan has the Cubs game.
jordan holmes
I'm just being aware of it.
People are very aware of it.
unidentified
I'm not watching it.
jordan holmes
I am just keeping awareness of it.
dan friesen
I understand you're a fan.
jordan holmes
I'm far more angry about that.
If you had just said it was the wine.
dan friesen
Are you sure it's not because...
Oh, wait.
We're up.
Never mind.
unidentified
Listen.
dan friesen
Listen.
So on September 11th, that was one of the things he wanted to talk about.
But again, it makes total sense.
He wants to scare people.
And so the idea that he has high-level sources that say, they're going to take out all the guys you like.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
All of our patriot guys.
They're going to take them out secretly.
That feeds into that.
But he also has an interview with a guy named Joseph Farah.
Are you aware of Joseph Farah?
jordan holmes
I am not.
Never heard of that name before.
dan friesen
He is the guy who started World Net Daily.
And he is a dick.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was going to say, you said World Net Daily, and I'm like, I bet he's a horrifying fucking person.
dan friesen
He is big into the Clinton conspiracies, along with our friend Larry Nichols.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
And then also, he is super, has made a lot of public claims that Obama, his birth certificate is fake.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He offered to pay up $15,000 if they could prove it was real.
And then reneged once the birth certificate was revealed.
He's a dick.
But he released some information about the Clintons that is dubious in the past.
About how they wanted to silence conservative voices and stuff like that.
So Alex has him on to do an interview about the growing Clinton menace in the 2016 election.
And he asks Joseph Farah...
Hey, you've got a bunch of information.
Why don't you release it?
Well, you have a bunch of stuff from this Clinton stash that you have.
jordan holmes
Very legitimate question.
dan friesen
Now, let's see how legitimate his answer is.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
I agree with you.
In closing, I want to get you back in the next few months to get into those documents you got.
You said some of it was so incendiary you had to carefully dole it out.
When are we going to learn more about what you got from the Clinton Library?
I mean, what you released was bombshell.
unidentified
Yeah, well, there's a lot of good stuff in there, but when I look at it, I think, this means something to me because I experienced it.
How much can I put out there without people thinking I'm just being self-indulgent and just being nostalgic?
alex jones
It doesn't matter.
This is how they plan to shut down new media.
I mean, it's really powerful.
unidentified
They thought of shutting down new media even before we got started, Alex.
I have to hand it to them.
They saw what a threat.
You know, we were at such an early stage in the development of new media, and so now, you know, now with guys like you and Breitbart and Drudge and the rest, they've really got their hands full, and they'll be more serious than ever.
dan friesen
Oh, that's a good dodge to Alex Jones's question, but in terms of the actual answer he gives is...
I have a bunch of damning documents that I don't want to release because people think I'm just being sentimental or nostalgic.
jordan holmes
No, he said self-indulgent, which I don't know what that means.
dan friesen
But he also said nostalgic.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
As Alex was talking over him, he said, I don't want to look like I'm nostalgic.
jordan holmes
I don't understand what that means at all.
dan friesen
I think if I was going to try and give him a tiny bit of credit, I would say that what he means is people will think I'm trying to self-aggrandize.
I'm trying to make myself the story about the Clintons.
And I want to avoid that.
It's him trying to be magnanimous and humble, but the reality is he has nothing.
He has no information.
Obviously, you're the fucking guy who runs and started World Net Daily.
You're on Alex Jones' show talking shit about the Clintons.
If you had any concrete information, you would pony that motherfucking shit up.
jordan holmes
Frankly, even if you had no concrete information, you would make something up.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Why is he pretending?
dan friesen
Because you want to have the MacGuffin.
You want to have this idea of this.
This possible thing, this magic thing that's in a box, because it's the same thing with what's on the server.
It's the same thing.
Whatever it creates in your mind is way more potent than what the reality is.
It's the same reason I've been putting out these...
I made an archive of the episodes of That's What They Want You To Think, me and Marty's conspiracy theory show.
Nice plug.
Thanks.
We did one episode about a group called the Hellfire Club.
I don't know if you're aware of them.
jordan holmes
Not at all.
dan friesen
They're a secret society that existed way in the past.
There's a guy named Sir Francis Dashwood.
I just love their names.
They're great.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, no, no!
Of course I know who the Hellfire Club is.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So they had this secret society, and most of it really was just debauchery.
jordan holmes
It was fucking.
dan friesen
It was drinking and fucking and saying things that God doesn't want you to say.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And making paintings of themselves as saints.
jordan holmes
Sodomy was involved.
dan friesen
Yeah, probably a lot of butt-fucking.
But the idea that they had was they created secrecy intentionally.
They had this methodology wherein they would publicly talk about how secret their society was.
And because they would do that, there was a mystique to what they did.
And everyone thought they were doing way more important shit than they were actually doing.
They were drinking and fucking.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
They were committing sacrilege, perhaps, but it wasn't to any larger goal.
But because they would be like, ask me about the Hellfire Club.
jordan holmes
Hey, Dan, have you been to the Hellfire Club?
dan friesen
Man, I haven't, but I hear they're really up to some weird shit in there, but no one talks about what goes on there.
jordan holmes
Nobody talks about it?
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
But, like, do you know?
dan friesen
I have no idea.
I've heard some fables.
Fables?
jordan holmes
Fables?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Did Aesop write about the Hellfire Club?
dan friesen
Moving on.
That roleplay didn't work out.
jordan holmes
None of our roleplays have ever worked out.
dan friesen
We've never taken improv classes.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But you understand what I'm saying?
jordan holmes
No, absolutely.
dan friesen
Joseph Farris playing the same game.
This mysterious...
I don't want to release this stuff because your mind will be like, oh, it's got to be the most damning stuff.
He's not putting it up.
Maybe it's dangerous.
jordan holmes
Douglas Adams had the best representation of that, I think, in one of his...
I think it was The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul.
He had a famous author.
Who would famously have a bunch of chickens taken into his hotel room every night, and nobody knows what they were for.
And then later on, he was like, well, yeah, he just had them brought in and had them smuggled out with nobody knowing, because it created that sense of, what the fuck is this guy doing?
Like, that kind of thing.
dan friesen
So many weird celebrities play that same game today.
unidentified
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
So, Joseph Fair is playing the same game, but it's unfortunately way more damaging, because what it creates is part of that.
Vast right-wing conspiracy.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
That Hillary Clinton so accurately complained about.
jordan holmes
Oh, poor Hillary.
dan friesen
Oh, poor Hillary.
jordan holmes
Well, actually, poor all of us.
dan friesen
Yeah, and let's be clear.
We're not sitting here saying that she's the greatest.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
That's not our game.
jordan holmes
That's like us...
The thing I think about whenever we talk about the election is...
A lot of what's going on with Emmanuel Macron right now in France.
Like, he's way better than Le Pen.
Yeah, than Le Pen, right?
But he's still acting like he's a king, you know?
Like, he's not doing good.
dan friesen
He sucks in a lot of ways, but Le Pen would have been so much worse.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
It seems like our world now exists in the extreme far-right.
Yeah.
unidentified
Neoliberalism.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Which sucks.
Like, hey, how about progressives?
This is a thing that I thought about.
dan friesen
But dude, if you think about it, that is the way that a lot of conservatives felt before the Tea Party really got going, is that the center was liberal.
And then the, you know what I'm saying?
jordan holmes
I do see what you're saying.
dan friesen
The Republicans were coming to the center, and then the Democrats were straight-up socialists.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so they launched this hard right thing, and they have moved it super far to the right.
jordan holmes
So far right.
dan friesen
And maybe, I don't know.
I don't know how I feel entirely about the blossoming internet socialism that's been going on lately.
I need to look into it a little more before I speak on it.
But it's possible that that will become its own sort of new version on the left of the Tea Party and swing things back.
But unfortunately, what will happen then is it won't...
jordan holmes
It is a pendulum.
dan friesen
But it won't readjust to the middle.
It will swing the other way.
And then there will be an even more extreme response from the militias on the right.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
And then eventually we'll all kill each other.
jordan holmes
There is the...
For every action, there is an equal and opposite.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
jordan holmes
That kind of theory.
dan friesen
Which kind of sucks.
jordan holmes
Dead silence for the next ten minutes.
dan friesen
Let's get introspective.
So, speaking of things that suck, this next clip from Alex...
is one of the most woefully misogynistic things he's ever had to say, and that's saying a lot.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
alex jones
But I just illustrate how serious this is.
You know, I mentioned this article.
Feminists claim it's sexist to complain.
See, I think it's sexist for her to complain out of Freudian slip.
Feminists claim it's sexist to compliment women.
Feminazi, to use the Rush Limbaugh term, publicly.
dan friesen
Just real quick, let's tell the story about what happened.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
There was a lady who on LinkedIn had a guy send her a message that was basically like, hey, I'd like to get in touch with you.
Also, I gotta say...
This might not be politically correct, but you've got the best picture on LinkedIn.
jordan holmes
All right.
No.
dan friesen
Her response was, I come here.
This is a professional networking site.
I do not want to be judged by my appearance, especially by someone twice my age, this whole sort of thing.
And then there was a massive backlash against her.
Everyone started calling her a cunt.
She started getting tons of death and rape threats over social media.
She was inundated with so much abuse.
Just from standing up for herself.
I read the messages that were sent.
They were posted.
You can read.
There's a Guardian article about it.
I don't think that she said anything that was like, hey, fuck you, man.
It was more corrective than anything else.
jordan holmes
It's like, hey, don't fucking...
I'm a person.
dan friesen
This is not a place for you to try and pick me up.
jordan holmes
I've had that so many times at shows where...
Afterwards, if it's me and a...
dan friesen
A female comic?
jordan holmes
This just happened recently.
Kristen Lundberg, a comic in Chicago, she and I did a show together, and one of the guys on the show afterwards came up to her and was like, man, whenever you pulled out that violin, you were so sexy.
There are compliments about comedy.
Yeah.
What is that?
What the fuck is that?
dan friesen
It's very weird, and the reason that she...
jordan holmes
You were very funny.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Instead of, fuck it.
Like, that's exactly what that is.
Like, are you good at your job?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But the reason that you brought it up, and I think, you know, the conversation that's been had that a lot of dudes aren't listening to, is that these sexualizing and eroticizing compliments...
Especially in non-romantic contexts.
What it does is it's a way of exerting power over women.
It's a way of taking away their agency and their ability.
And that's the point that she was making.
And she's totally right.
Now let's hear Alex discuss it.
jordan holmes
Oh no.
alex jones
I don't want to know.
For complimenting her.
jordan holmes
I don't want to know.
Stop.
dan friesen
Mic down.
alex jones
And now in the London Telegraph today, lawyer who accused Barrister of sexism, the same woman.
Has described men online as hot stuff.
Ooh, a thought crime there.
I mean, a mammal will be attracted to the opposite sex.
That's not a crime.
Having the name he or she or boy or girl, it's not bad to be he or she, see?
I mean, this is how freakish this is getting.
A lawyer who accused a fellow barrister of sexism in England after he described LinkedIn profile as stunning had previously praised men for their physical appearance online telling them they are Hot stuff.
Now, she just chose to do this, and the feminist group said, good, name him and shame him to get her stars and bars.
Charlotte Proudman, 27, said she felt objectified.
Oh, that's why you had your hair all done up and stuff on there.
After receiving an online message from Alexander Carter, 57, she had invited to connect on the professional networking site.
So she invited him to connect.
He said, wow, I love your photo.
It's stunning.
How dare him?
I mean, I'll be sitting there and there's an old lady checking me out at Dillard's or something buying a shirt.
And if she's got a cool watch or something, I don't say it if I don't like it.
I'll go, that's a really nice watch.
Your hair really looks nice.
So fucking different!
My mom does, my dad does.
I see a guy get, you know, on an elevator with me with a cool sports jacket or a cool Rolex.
Cool bag.
I'll say, man, that's really cool.
I'm just being nice.
Plus, I like it.
This is sick.
Telling us that our very communication's bad, putting us in smaller and smaller boxes.
But it's all selectively enforced.
If you want to have liberal Hollywood, sexism, sex stuff, debauchery, torture, murder, that's okay.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
alex jones
You can have kids play violent video games all day, but if they go to school and write an essay about the Marines and mention an M-16, here come the police.
unidentified
Nope.
alex jones
He wrote, I appreciate this, that this is probably horrendously politically incorrect, but that is a stunning picture.
Oh, he even admitted it was politically incorrect.
He even prostrated himself before her that I'm so sorry it's politically incorrect.
And that signaled her like a bug-eyed piranha to come in and go after him.
Because, see, they peck members of the cult even more.
I mean, you know, what I found is these women that are fake feminists, and I've talked to a lot of guys about this, like Democratic Party operative women and stuff, actually want to be debased and want to be called pigs and stuff.
And so the problem was he groveled her.
I'm not saying with her, but that's what I would imagine.
unidentified
He said, hey, you pussy, it's time for us to get together right now.
alex jones
He's been partying on that problem.
dan friesen
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
That end is crazy.
If he had just fucking outright sexually harassed her as opposed to couched his sexual harassment in polite language, he would have been fucking on LinkedIn.
That's so fucking awful.
That interpretation is wild.
jordan holmes
I don't...
How can you not understand that?
How can you not understand that the context of his...
Look, I want to fuck!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But that's not why I would hire someone.
dan friesen
That's not why I would be on LinkedIn.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Like, what's wrong with you?
If you're like, hey, look at this sexy, attractive woman.
That's great.
So long as you're not being a creep.
So long as you're not...
Pulling them off the street, so long as you've got catcalling, so long as it's within a context that makes sense and is accepted by both sides.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the idea that you should do that in a professional circumstance is so...
dan friesen
It's bizarre.
unidentified
Fuck!
dan friesen
So, also, but the reason that he thinks he's in sort of safe harbor to critique her and call her like a wild, out-of-control feminazi, blah, blah, blah, is that he said at the beginning of that that she'd called men sexy and hot stuff online.
jordan holmes
Yeah, like, that's exactly fucking, fucking fuck, come on.
dan friesen
If you look into that, the circumstances are she commented sexy on her friend's photos on Facebook.
jordan holmes
No, fucking.
dan friesen
Which is completely different.
jordan holmes
Very, very different.
That's congratulatory.
dan friesen
He knows that people aren't going to look into it.
He knows that his audience is already predisposed to these anti-feminist, chauvinist mentalities, because he knows that his fucking audience is all dudes.
jordan holmes
That's just like whenever they show the little headlines, stuff like that, where it's like, oh, a former convict.
Murdered by the cops.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Instead of father of two.
dan friesen
No, it's even worse.
jordan holmes
But when it's a white person, it's father of three.
dan friesen
There were two examples within the last week that were really illustrative of that.
Oh, yeah.
There was the one where a guy pulled someone out of a burning car and they said ex-felon.
Instead of going to a job interview, saved someone from a burning car.
Why the fuck do you have to bring up that he's a fucking felon in the headline?
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
And then the other one was that there was a lady who sent ricin to President Obama, and they used her headshot.
jordan holmes
Former actress.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fucking unbelievable.
Or just the way that the white lady shot.
The Australian white lady shot by the cops is treated so differently.
The police chief resigned.
She didn't get fired.
She resigned over it.
Un-fucking-believable.
dan friesen
If it weren't so tragic and a sign of what our society's up to, it would be comical.
The actual elements of it are farce.
But, be that as it may, that's kind of where we leave off September 11th, 2015.
Not a whole lot of talk about September 11th.
unidentified
Really.
dan friesen
He has an interview with our favorite homophobic pastor, Chuck Baldwin.
He is the guy who said that no civilization that has officially endorsed homosexuality has ever survived.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's true.
dan friesen
He goes on to say a bunch more homophobic stuff, and they scream about how Christianity is responsible for saving people from slavery, all sorts of...
Everything that's good that's ever happened is Christianity.
jordan holmes
Everything that's good that's ever happened is Christian.
Even when Christians did bad stuff, well, that's because they weren't Christians.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
They were doing bad stuff.
dan friesen
So that was on the 11th.
jordan holmes
It's almost as if, regardless of your religion, people are capable of doing good and bad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So the 11th is a Friday.
Then, over the weekend, Alex Jones goes to the hike and bike trail and jumps into the lake and ends up with an ear infection.
So he's gone on Sunday.
David Knight hosts on the 13th.
David Knight hosts again on the 14th.
So he can skip past those.
And we get back to the 15th.
And it's weird, because he ended the 11th show talking about how Christianity has done everything great for civilization.
And he comes back on the 15th, and he wants to talk a whole bunch about West.
The West.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
And it's very similar stuff, but instead of religion, it's based in the West.
And I would posit he does not have a good handle on history.
But we can discuss that on the other end.
jordan holmes
Oh, did we just discover that now?
dan friesen
We can discuss that on the other end of this book.
alex jones
All I've been taught my whole life was how evil the West was.
How inherently bad white people were.
And then I studied history from even foreign perspectives.
It's just not true.
And why the West is great, and why I say it's the best, on average, some cultures are better at other things for whatever manifestation, whatever manifest destiny reason.
jordan holmes
Whiteness.
alex jones
Just like different breeds of dogs behave differently and have different attributes.
jordan holmes
White dogs are better.
alex jones
The West has been the great innovator.
The great builders, the great scientists.
Now, much of the ideas the West has come from the East, come from the South, come from even older cultures.
But for whatever reason, many of those cultures fell before and never rose back up.
And the West, the Romans particularly, were great innovators at grabbing other cultures and using it.
When other cultures tended to not innovate, they intended to invent things, but then not innovate off of that.
jordan holmes
I don't know what that means.
unidentified
On average.
dan friesen
I do.
alex jones
And so it was the West that was the melting pot.
It was the West early on that actually wasn't racist and sectarian like some of the other groups.
Now, the West became like that later.
dan friesen
Sure.
So, I have a lot of historical thoughts.
The first is...
jordan holmes
Where do we start with his bullshit there?
dan friesen
I'll try and work backwards.
jordan holmes
How...
I want to start at the beginning.
All right.
dan friesen
Go ahead.
The idea...
jordan holmes
First, there was God.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
The idea that...
jordan holmes
Then he created the stars and the...
Okay.
dan friesen
The idea that old-time West civilizations weren't racist is...
Patently absurd.
I haven't studied Rome all that much, but I've studied Greece extensively.
It's a big part of my college education.
And one of the things, just a great example that's very easy for people to analyze and understand, is that, you know the word barbarian?
You know where it comes from?
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
It comes from the Greek.
jordan holmes
Barbary.
dan friesen
No, it comes from ho barbaros, which is a term for people outside invading.
Because they thought that everybody who didn't...
jordan holmes
Do you mean immigrants?
dan friesen
Yeah, they thought, well, they had a really interesting idea about having to take people into your home.
Strangers, they had like a...
jordan holmes
They had a neighbor.
dan friesen
Yeah, they had a very complicated thing with actual people, but big groups, they would...
Barbarian comes from Barbar.
They thought that everyone just said barbar.
They didn't respect anyone else's language or any culture.
jordan holmes
Oh, it was like woof woof.
Yeah.
unidentified
It was just an onomatopoeia.
dan friesen
Those who say barbar became barbarians.
Okay.
unidentified
And that's where the word comes from to this day.
jordan holmes
That's really fascinating.
dan friesen
There's tons of stuff like that throughout the history of Greece and Rome.
They were very terrible, the other cultures and civilizations.
Secondly...
The idea that Rome was this great innovator that took things from other cultures and then made it better, they conquered everybody!
jordan holmes
They didn't take things.
They just took things.
dan friesen
They killed everybody.
jordan holmes
They just took things.
dan friesen
You know what else they took?
Their land.
They took over everything.
They were an empire.
They were a complete empire.
So then, the idea that the West is the great innovators, I just have pulled up a list of Chinese inventions.
Paper, printing, movable type, gunpowder, compass, alcoholic beverages, bells, wooden coffins, daggers, lacquer, millet cultivation, noodles, rowing ores, plowshares, pottery, pottery urns, the ability to cultivate rice, soybean cultivation, acupuncture, banknotes.
jordan holmes
You know what?
We can stop at acupuncture.
unidentified
Belts.
jordan holmes
I think you should have just stopped right before acupuncture, actually.
dan friesen
Belts.
Bombs.
Blast furnaces.
Bristle toothbrushes.
Cast iron.
jordan holmes
So what you're saying is that it is directly the Chinese fault.
dan friesen
Chromium.
jordan holmes
For the Holocaust.
I think the Chinese caused the Holocaust.
dan friesen
Most types of drill.
Color printing.
Crossbows.
jordan holmes
Dominoes.
The thing that drives me insane.
I think everybody gets your point.
Firelands.
Fireworks.
dan friesen
Fishing reels.
Flamethrowers.
jordan holmes
I think zero people have not gotten your point.
dan friesen
Fragmentation bombs.
jordan holmes
Wait, why are we proud of fragmentation bombs?
dan friesen
I don't know.
Hey, let's talk about India and what they've invented.
In the third millennium...
jordan holmes
No!
No!
Stop!
dan friesen
In the third millennium D.C., the Indians invented a flushing toilet.
jordan holmes
Stop.
dan friesen
They invented a fucking flushing toilet.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
The Indians invented the ruler.
They invented the weighing scale.
They invented all sorts of ways to fuck with metal.
The Indians invented the plow.
jordan holmes
I think I understand what it was he was talking about when he said he didn't want to reveal Hillary Clinton's information because it was self-indulgent.
dan friesen
Shampoo.
The Indians invented shampoo.
The word is based on an Indian word.
They invented tons of games that we use.
Shoots and ladders is based on an Indian game called snakes and ladders.
jordan holmes
Well, then I will never forgive them.
No, no.
So here's the thing that I hear, though.
dan friesen
The Indians invented indigo dye.
unidentified
All right.
dan friesen
I'm done.
jordan holmes
That's actually pretty amazing.
Although that is the cheapest dye.
dan friesen
So I wear it in blue jeans.
You and I both listened to that episode for dollars.
unidentified
Exactly.
dan friesen
All right.
jordan holmes
Yes.
The Knowledge Fight.
The podcast that references other podcasts.
We've gotten two so far in this episode.
No, but here's the bigger thing.
He just misses entirely.
You pointed out, look at all of these inventions in China and India.
And then he talks about the West being Rome and all of those places.
Who the fuck was right in the middle?
Who the fuck put together all of these things?
He says the West was the melting pot.
That is unbelievable bullshit.
The Silk Road.
It began and ended in the middle.
It didn't start on the west or the east.
It was right there in the fucking middle, in the Middle East.
It was those civilizations that came from Iraq.
Those places were the ones that made us all what we are.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
And the fact that he pretends that it's the east or the west.
Boggles my mind.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
That is a complete misrepresentation of all of history.
dan friesen
And we don't have fucking time to go through all of the Middle Eastern countries and their innovation.
jordan holmes
Just start with zero.
The number zero.
dan friesen
Or Africa, the things that have come out of Africa.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Or South America.
There's a...
Yeah.
All the world's cultures have had innovation within them.
All the world's cultures have brought us amazing things that we use.
jordan holmes
It's fucking absurd.
The most important part.
Is that the areas where they all met, the areas where everybody mixed, that's where things got a lot better and a lot more interesting a lot faster.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Everywhere where it's isolated, everywhere.
Like, when you're talking about Africa...
Especially in the historical context, generally people wind up talking about Egypt.
Those central parts of Africa.
dan friesen
Because it had access.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
Where you can still see indigenous people today, they are so isolated that they never wound up interacting with all of this insane stuff.
dan friesen
Because they weren't in the north and they weren't close to other...
And they didn't have ports.
Egypt had ports.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
So you had people that came in boats from far off lands.
And had to go through them in order to do anything.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
That's how the Library of Alexandria got so big.
jordan holmes
The idea of isolation is the idea of completely removing any innovation or invention or anything like that.
dan friesen
Nationalism.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
If you want the world to die, nationalism is the way you do it.
dan friesen
Alright, so I mean, Alex has a lot of really fucked up views about the West, and he's wrong about most of them, as we've discussed.
But, get this.
This next clip is super bizarre.
We know Alex Jones as a man who's primarily against tyranny.
That is what he's afraid of.
jordan holmes
Theoretically primarily against tyranny.
dan friesen
Well, based on his words.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
His sort of...
World conception is that the liberals are not really liberals.
They want to push socialism, which will lead to communism, which will lead to a totalitarian regime tyranny.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
That is his big fear.
jordan holmes
He doesn't understand how much fewer steps it takes to get to tyranny.
dan friesen
We're there.
jordan holmes
We're way past it.
dan friesen
But he has this, like, that is what has driven his career.
Now, as I talked about...
At the beginning of this episode, there's also that weird pseudo-spiritual shit that's going on in the background.
jordan holmes
Elves.
dan friesen
But in terms of what he's really willing to present as his overarching theme, it's a fight against tyranny.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That is how he sort of presents himself all the time.
alex jones
Right.
dan friesen
This next clip is super fucked up when you keep that in mind.
alex jones
The globalists do not want you to be perceptive.
They do not want you to be powerful.
They do not want you to be free.
They are incredible enslavers.
And all I know is they're not good.
They claim they're engaging in all this tyranny to bring in a total control system to protect the earth from wars and factions killing each other.
I'll be honest with you.
If there was a quasi-tyranny, I'm just going to be totally honest from now on, that had good for us and empowered individuals, but went and shut down really bad people, I would say it was a lesser of evils, very dangerous, might become the ultimate tyranny down the road.
But I wouldn't fight it to the point of putting my full will against it to where I try to force his hand against me.
jordan holmes
What the fuck does that mean?
What he just said is tyranny is cool as long as it's on my side.
dan friesen
As long as it's the right kind of tyranny.
jordan holmes
As long as it's on my side.
dan friesen
Right.
That's incredibly fucked up.
Like, that should invalidate most of his beliefs.
jordan holmes
That should invalidate everything.
dan friesen
That means he has no principles.
He's just on a team.
It's just that his team is weird.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, his team is not the Republicans, necessarily.
It's not even Libertarians.
It's...
jordan holmes
That's...
That is...
dan friesen
It's anti-government, weird constitutionalists.
jordan holmes
That really is one of those things where you do point back, like, I shit all over the founding...
Congresses.
I refuse to call them the founding fathers.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
That's fucking annoying.
dan friesen
It's patriarchal.
jordan holmes
Fucking annoying.
Not patriarchal, just very...
It's like saying the...
dan friesen
Call them the founding daddies.
jordan holmes
It's like saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
It's super weird.
Just in a gross way.
But the framers of the Constitution, I don't know why that's better for me.
dan friesen
It doesn't have fathers in the name.
jordan holmes
The guys who jerked off onto paper and made it words.
dan friesen
Sure.
They did an ooky cookie with a paper.
jordan holmes
I am trying so hard to get to a point.
dan friesen
Richie, you're failing.
jordan holmes
Awful.
The one thing that I do give them is that all of those guys really did come from it from different angles.
Like, there were, in general, The same concept of Republicans and Democrats that we have now.
dan friesen
It's flipped, but there were a bunch of times.
There were liberal and conservative folk.
jordan holmes
Progressive and conservative.
dan friesen
Jefferson and Washington had incredibly different perspectives.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
And they disagreed with each other loud and hard.
But at the end of the day, all of them were against kings.
dan friesen
Tyranny.
jordan holmes
Fucking...
Fucking throw everything.
You guys want taxes?
I hate taxes.
But no fucking kings!
Like, they all agreed on that.
dan friesen
And you know what else they would not be thrilled with?
Quasi-king.
unidentified
Yeah!
jordan holmes
Yeah, I'm cool with quasi-tier.
Maybe it turns into tyranny down the road, but right now it's quasi-tyranny.
And it might be the most dangerous thing ever.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
What is that?
jordan holmes
No!
That is the one thing that you can point to with our overarching idea of the Declaration of Independence.
And the Constitution is no kings.
And right now we have a political party that is for kings.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, you look at it...
jordan holmes
And probably 40% of the other party is...
The way that we've expanded executive powers is beyond reason.
Especially under Obama.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
Now, that was maybe in response to the fact that we had the most obstructive Congress in history, and so the only way to actually get anything done is for Obama to be like, fuck it, I'm doing it.
dan friesen
And the largest financial crisis in recorded, not recorded history, but in recent memory.
jordan holmes
Definitely not recorded history.
dan friesen
No, but in recent memory.
jordan holmes
Yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
And a bunch of wars, and the fact that our healthcare system was in desperate need of something.
jordan holmes
There's a whole list of reasons why it happened.
dan friesen
It's not good, though.
jordan holmes
But that's how you get tyranny.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Like, a whole bunch of crises come together, and people fuck up along the way.
dan friesen
And once Trump gets away with everything that he's been doing, we will be 100% there.
jordan holmes
He has...
He will?
And has gotten away with everything.
dan friesen
Yep.
And Alex will cheerlead all the way.
So, also, a couple more points about this September 15th episode before we get to more clips.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It opened with a John Bound report that was about how Assad is a real cool dude doing a great job in Syria.
All he's doing is fighting ISIS.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Nonsense.
jordan holmes
Fighting ISIS.
dan friesen
Also, I realized why so many episodes start with a John Bound report, and that is because...
The radio stations start at 6 of the hour.
The shows start at 6 after.
They have their commercials and station identification and what have you.
Almost every episode of the show now starts with a John Bound report.
Why is he on every fucking day?
These reports are terrible.
It's just because they've got to fill time until the stations actually pick up the show.
They're doing more pro-Assad stuff, more pro-Russia business.
jordan holmes
Being pro-Assad is such a perfect bellwether of whether or not you should kill yourself.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, if you're pro-Assad, just fucking die now.
dan friesen
I'm okay with that?
Now.
Alex is super mad about a story that he read about L.A. trying to call themselves the capital of Latin America.
jordan holmes
That's fun.
dan friesen
Well, you know why they did that?
It was a desperate sales pitch to try and get the Olympics.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, yeah.
dan friesen
I'm sorry, the World Cup.
They were trying to get the World Cup to come to LA, and it was part of a PR campaign.
Talking about how North America is one and they are the capital of Latin America.
And Alex is like, no, it's just about the North American Union coming together.
This is them coming out into the open.
jordan holmes
Globalists.
dan friesen
No, they wanted to make a ton of money in Los Angeles.
jordan holmes
Well, in regards to the World Cup, a very small amount of people wanted to make a very large amount of money and fuck over everybody.
dan friesen
And thankfully that didn't happen.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Although they...
We'll probably get the Olympics, so they'll be fucking us over in some way.
dan friesen
And that's why I had that brain fart calling at the Olympics.
But be that as it may, we need to check in.
Alex, like I said, in that couple days back, called Trump a punk, told him to shut his fat mouth, and then the next day Trump back-paddled and Alex softened.
So now we've got to check in.
Alex Jones on the 15th of September has some thoughts about Trump.
Here's where we're at.
alex jones
When I get mad at Rand Paul and say he should be more aggressive and sound more like Trump, it's because I love Rand Paul.
I know he's for real.
I support him.
I want him to win.
I trust him.
But I know he's listening to more milquetoast political advisors that say that Trump's going to get destroyed in a general election because he's too extreme.
He's not extreme.
I don't know if I trust Trump or not.
I don't know him, but I do know what he's saying is true, and that's why he's so popular.
dan friesen
We're back to where we started.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
We have made no progress.
jordan holmes
None.
dan friesen
He went, it just went meh, and then back.
jordan holmes
Back, back, yeah.
dan friesen
It just, there is a will-they-won't-they thing going on, and the baseline is, I like what he's saying, but I don't trust him.
jordan holmes
I think his real problem so far seems to be that...
Rand Paul actually believes in what Alex Jones says he believes, and Alex Jones doesn't actually believe in what he says he believes.
dan friesen
That might be part of the tension.
jordan holmes
That's what it seems to me.
dan friesen
And I think Rand Paul's a little smarter than Alex.
jordan holmes
Rand Paul is so much smarter than Alex.
dan friesen
But in terms of knowing what is possible, what isn't possible, I think Rand Paul's also a fucking dick.
Absolutely.
Agreed.
jordan holmes
He's a disaster.
But he seems to be an ideologically consistent dick.
Which is something that we cannot say about Alex.
dan friesen
No, he just said he's cool with partial tyranny.
jordan holmes
Alex is nonsense.
dan friesen
It's a complete mess.
jordan holmes
Alex is the wind.
He blows wherever it may.
dan friesen
On this episode, he has that interview with the guy from the Citizens for Guns or whatever.
I can't remember the name of the organization.
And I'll tell you this.
jordan holmes
Citizens for Guns.
dan friesen
It's not important.
unidentified
That might as well be the name.
dan friesen
It's just a guy who's super into guns.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he has a terrible Skype.
He's just sitting in a room doing this interview with Alex.
And they end up having this conversation.
This is the second instance of complete historical revisionism.
I think it's slightly less offensive than the Holocaust denial that Alex engaged in previously, but it is just as whack.
unidentified
Federal government, you can go here and no farther.
And if you try...
Then the Second Amendment comes into play.
To put it a little bit more crudely, we'll point our guns at you if you try to act tyrannically.
alex jones
And that's in the Declaration of Independence, in the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights.
The war started over them coming to take the guns.
It doesn't matter how many quack professors they pay from Bloomberg.
Books claiming it wasn't about guns.
It was all about self-defense.
It's always about self-defense.
It's always about being free.
dan friesen
The Revolutionary War was about guns.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
The UK.
jordan holmes
That's obvious.
alex jones
Okay.
jordan holmes
Who has not read history?
dan friesen
Alex.
jordan holmes
Don't you remember in 1776 when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, they were like, GUNS!
dan friesen
That's why it was the Second Amendment.
Yeah, I think that there were more issues about taxation, certainly.
Alex loves to bring up tariffs when he talks about the Civil War.
This one might be more appropriate.
There was that.
There was the lack of recourse.
There was a lack of redress of grievances.
There was no representation.
Those sorts of issues seem to be more important.
I know that the Tea Party, the Boston Tea Party, was not about guns.
I know that.
unidentified
Hmm.
dan friesen
Maybe it was.
jordan holmes
What else you got?
dan friesen
Maybe it was.
jordan holmes
What else you got?
dan friesen
Maybe they were throwing...
jordan holmes
Give me six more examples.
dan friesen
I don't need to.
Alex has no examples.
jordan holmes
None.
dan friesen
It's just an assertion.
It's just an assertion that the Revolutionary War was about guns.
What?
jordan holmes
I mean, what do you say to a person who believes that?
What do you say to somebody who believes that the Civil War was about states' rights or tariffs?
Like, what words are possible?
dan friesen
I think that there's a way, though, to like...
Tariffs, no, that's not true.
But I think there is a way...
To look back on what happened in the course of the Civil War and rewrite it reasonably with the state's rights.
It's not what was going on then.
This is going to be a dangerous argument for me to make.
jordan holmes
This is already dangerous territory.
dan friesen
I think that in hindsight you can make the argument that what they were trying to argue was state's rights.
That we should be able to decide whatever is legal in our state, federal government, get out, whatever.
Like, I think you can do that.
You can't use what they were saying back then to make your argument, because it's not true.
It's clearly about slavery.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But you could do that.
I don't think you can do that with the Revolutionary War being about guns.
jordan holmes
Absolutely not.
dan friesen
Because I don't think that...
jordan holmes
Do you know what?
dan friesen
I don't think the primary disagreement between the British and us was...
Gun ownership.
jordan holmes
Do you know what the primary disagreement that is a through line between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War?
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
Rich people are fucking us over.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's true.
jordan holmes
That's what the argument has been.
That's what the argument has always been.
dan friesen
And in the Revolutionary War, it was the rich British are fucking us over.
joe biggs
Yep.
dan friesen
And the Civil War...
jordan holmes
It was the rich Southerners are fucking us over.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It was the rich people are...
Okay, and I don't want to pull out a...
dan friesen
And the Southerners were rich because they were enslaving people.
jordan holmes
Well, exactly.
And it wasn't even the Southerners.
It was a very small number of the Southerners.
And then it was racism.
It was the propaganda that they'd been fed the whole time about how black people aren't even really people.
It is always...
And I'm not going to pull a hardcore socialist argument out.
I am just going to point out the same thing that has always been true, that it's a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
Rich people always wind up fucking fat.
Yeah.
They always wind up winning.
dan friesen
They're smart.
jordan holmes
Regardless of who wins.
Oh, fuck.
Fucking fuck.
Fuck you.
They're smart.
They're fucking insane.
dan friesen
I mean, smart in terms of, like, cunning.
In terms of, like, an evil ability to, no matter what the outcome, I'm going to benefit from it.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Smart.
I mean, rich people.
jordan holmes
They're privy to more information than everybody else.
They're not smart.
It's like insider training.
It's not like they're brilliant.
It's that they know.
The guys who voted on the healthcare bill were like, okay, well, we're going to invest in the same day on companies that stand to profit from this exact vote.
It's not that they're smarter than us.
It's that they're fucking us over.
dan friesen
But it's manipulating a system that we allow to continue.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
So, Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
The day before September 15th, something really fucked up happened.
September 14th.
jordan holmes
September 14th, 2015.
dan friesen
Donald Trump had a rally in Texas.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And Joe Biggs went to the rally.
jordan holmes
Oh, I bet he has some insider information we would never have found out without him.
dan friesen
Now, I have a couple clips from Joe Biggs reporting about going to the Trump rally that I think bring into sharp focus the moment when Alex Jones realized Trump's the way to go.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
No shit.
dan friesen
Now, I'm not entirely sure about this.
And Alex doesn't give a lot of indications that I'm correct.
But I will make my argument over the course of the next three or four clips.
jordan holmes
Two or three hours, basically, is what you just said.
dan friesen
No, we got way more than that.
Here is the first clip of Joe Biggs reporting about going to the Trump rally.
And, again...
It is not what you'd expect.
alex jones
Gotta get to the Trump situation.
So you're up there for Lord Trumpus.
What happened?
joe biggs
I went in there with an open mind.
He says a lot of good things out there.
He's definitely a crowd pleaser.
And I wrote down on this piece of paper that he was lackluster.
He's lackluster in the sense that he's not motivated or convicted in a sense when it comes to the issues at hand.
Issues that a presidential candidate should have conviction in, have knowledge in.
When he's asked...
Certain questions about these issues, he doesn't have a really good answer.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
He kind of reminded me of Rodney Dangerfield with these one-liners.
Like, hey, we got a border problem, huh?
What are we going to do about it?
Let's build a wall.
All right, so what is a wall going to do?
All he does is he brings problems to the table without a solution.
And that's what I heard last night.
A whole lot of problems being brought to the table without him giving any kind of clear path to how he was going to give a solution to these.
alex jones
We know a wall won't work contiguously.
What really works is prosecuting people that hire illegals.
dan friesen
So at this point, Joe Biggs is doing slightly reasonable reporting.
jordan holmes
That actually sounds pretty reasonable.
dan friesen
And I'm going to get into this next clip.
jordan holmes
It's scary.
dan friesen
But that's the beginning of the two of them kind of advocating for reasonable, moderate immigration reform.
jordan holmes
And Trump, or Jones...
Saying that a wall won't work is mind-boggling.
dan friesen
When months later, he's screaming about a wall.
jordan holmes
We need a wall.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
A wall is the most important thing.
Guatemala, there's a wall on the border of Guatemala and Mexico, which there isn't.
Later, a couple days past this, he has an interview with Jesse Ventura.
And Jesse Ventura lives in Mexico.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he's like, what about the wall between Mexico and Guatemala?
And he's like, I don't know if that exists.
It doesn't.
It 100% doesn't.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
He's like, I've never been down there.
I don't know.
Like, well, look into it.
It doesn't exist.
jordan holmes
The last wall that was similar to the one that Trump proposes was the Berlin Wall.
dan friesen
Which Jesse Ventura also brings up a bunch.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's great for it.
dan friesen
But at this point, like, Joe Biggs is making sense.
He's absolutely making sense.
jordan holmes
I feel like you're about to bring the hammer down.
dan friesen
Not yet.
Trump has a bunch of problems.
No solutions.
He's up there.
He doesn't have a grasp of the issues.
jordan holmes
Doesn't know what he's talking about.
dan friesen
He's just coming in with Rodney Dangerfield-style one-liners.
But he's a showman.
Kind of makes sense.
In this next clip, they talk a little bit more about immigrant stuff.
And Alex is surprisingly moderate.
It's very weird.
For the months that we've listened to him screaming about how the globalists are trying to flood us with people and we need to get rid of them or not let them in.
jordan holmes
Comparing the man we know now versus the man that we're talking about.
dan friesen
No, I'm talking about the last few months in 2015.
jordan holmes
Oh, in 2015.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's been screaming about fucking immigrants the whole time that we've been doing this investigation.
jordan holmes
No, absolutely.
dan friesen
Yeah, so I'm not talking about present-day Alex.
jordan holmes
But I'm just talking about the present-day Alex versus the previous Alex in terms of the wall.
dan friesen
Right, right, right.
jordan holmes
That boggles my mind.
dan friesen
It's nuts.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
It's nuts.
It's complete evidence that he's sold himself out.
His principles mean nothing.
Agreed.
So here is, I've labeled this clip, Joe and Alex seem very moderate on immigration reform.
joe biggs
You know, Donald Trump said in two years he's going to have every illegal out of the country.
The only way you can do that, it was just like I was talking to my college alien back there.
It would be like Nazi Germany.
They're going to have to go door to door and find, are you an American?
I need to see proof.
And that's what's going to happen.
That's the only way you're going to get all the illegals out.
But then at the same time, you still have illegals in the country who want to do good.
alex jones
And we're not even saying, all we're saying is don't say free welfare, free babies, come here and have the Democrats sign them up to anti-gun groups and give them fake voting cards.
unidentified
Guns!
dan friesen
But at the same time, that's reasonable.
If that was his actual position and if it reflected reality in any way, that's a pretty reasonable position.
jordan holmes
It's not terrible.
dan friesen
It's not what he actually believes.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
It's the way he presents things.
jordan holmes
That's like a McCain...
Republican idea.
In 2008 when McCain ran, that's the kind of idea of like, hey, we know a lot of people are good, but we just don't want you taking advantage of a system.
And so we're going to take steps to stop that.
dan friesen
And as we already have covered when Jesse Ventura was last on, he was talking about like, I'm not sure if these people are getting the...
jordan holmes
They're not, because it's not possible.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
But if they are, why would you not blame the system as opposed to the person who is just trying to survive?
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And that is a far more reasonable stance.
But Joe Biggs is coming in here.
And Trump is saying he's going to get rid of all the illegal immigrants, and he's like, that's impossible without turning into a fucking police state.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
Absolutely not.
jordan holmes
Which would require some sort of tyranny.
dan friesen
Yeah, Joe Biggs is pushing back against that, and Alex is fine with the push.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's crazy.
This next clip...
jordan holmes
Do we just diverge entirely from that?
dan friesen
No, not yet.
jordan holmes
No, not yet?
alex jones
What is happening?
dan friesen
This next clip is still sensible.
alex jones
We're not even critics of Trump here.
I mean, Joe just wanted them to see what he was really like.
Yeah, but a lot of it is like a Rodney Dangerfield one-liner.
Why do folks like him so much then?
joe biggs
He's a crowd pleaser.
He definitely knows how to work a crowd, and that's what he was doing.
He didn't have, the first thing he talked about when he showed up, hey, this is teleprompter free, we don't have any, and he rambled on about how he made $215 million on The Apprentice.
It took 30 minutes before he even named an issue, and when he did, he talked about this vague tax plan that he had, and that in a few weeks he's going to release this, you know...
alex jones
Sure, he appealed like a carnival barker to success.
joe biggs
Everyone was in there screaming and yelling, women crying, babies screaming, signs flying up through the air.
alex jones
Well, that just shows how desperate people are.
dan friesen
So, basically, he's just saying there's no substance to what he's saying.
He's a showman, he's a carnival barker.
But at the end there, they're talking about how...
Even with that lack of substance, people are going crazy.
They were in an arena that was full of people.
Trump is able to draw these crowds, these massive crowds that are mind-blowing.
jordan holmes
Oh, he would be booked at the improv immediately.
unidentified
Totally.
dan friesen
He could do it.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
He's like Steve-O.
He's terrible, but fuck it.
dan friesen
He can get a weekend.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, of course.
dan friesen
Trump's stapling his balls to his leg.
Now I'd pay for that.
joe biggs
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I think that this is sort of...
jordan holmes
I would pay for me stapling Trump's balls to his leg.
dan friesen
I don't know why you need to do it.
That's weird.
jordan holmes
Oh, I need to do it.
dan friesen
So this next clip, I think we've heard a lot of a very reasonable perspective that Joe Biggs has from going to this Trump rally.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I think we're going to start to see here...
jordan holmes
It's going to start to deteriorate.
dan friesen
Well, maybe...
jordan holmes
This will be the beginning of the end.
dan friesen
Maybe.
And I'll make my point after this clip and the next one.
jordan holmes
Also, do you know how great Todd Glass is?
dan friesen
It's hilarious.
jordan holmes
I can't stop.
And any time you bring up Rodney Dangerfield now, I don't think of Rodney Dangerfield.
I think of Todd Glass doing Mitch Hedberg jokes in Rodney Dangerfield's voice.
dan friesen
He's the best.
jordan holmes
It's just amazing.
dan friesen
Anyway, not the best is this.
joe biggs
Well, I definitely had an agenda when I went up there as well.
I wore my Hillary for Prison 2016 t-shirt under my suit.
alex jones
By the way, that's a bestseller.
We have photos.
At least you sent me those photos, Joe.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe biggs
They should be all on my Twitter right now as well.
And I have footage of myself.
I'm in the front row.
I snuck up to the front row.
And I'm sitting there.
I'm kind of getting nervous a little bit.
I was like, all right, I got to do it.
I got to do it.
And I undid my shirt like Superman.
And you could see the Hillary for Prison shirt.
And I jumped up and screamed right in a lull, like a little silence part.
And I go, Hillary for Prison!
And Trump's like, yeah, Hillary!
And he's like pointing at me.
So if you guys have that clip, we can show it really quick.
jordan holmes
Did not happen.
unidentified
Did that for real happen?
dan friesen
It did.
It did.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
Well, what happened was...
jordan holmes
So he's like the Daft Punk in 2007.
dan friesen
Trump is in the middle of saying something that the crowd likes, and Joe Biggs rips his shirt open, and he's got Hillary for prison.
He yells Hillary for prison.
And Trump is like, You know who's not surging in the polls?
Hillary.
And he's like, thank you.
And he just points over at Joe Biggs.
That's the extent of the interaction.
But hear me out on this.
jordan holmes
So Joe Biggs has been jerking off for three years based on that, right?
dan friesen
Joe Biggs went there as a marketing possibility.
The idea of going there and finding out what's going on with Trump was secondary to the idea of field testing this Hillary for prison shirt.
So he goes there as a marketing opportunity because Trump has pulled an arena full of people to Texas, which there might be audience crossover with.
So Joe Biggs goes down there, he does the Superman thing, and people seem to really like it.
Now listen to this next clip.
jordan holmes
Oh no.
joe biggs
So I opened up my shirt and the entire crowd erupted.
And you can see these different reporters or a man get standing ovation for showing his Hillary for prison shirt.
And it got to a point where I just ended up pulling the blazer off in the top and just had the shirt going.
alex jones
And see, anybody could have done what you...
I love the fact you always went with great ideas.
You're always making the news.
You're always making people, you know, link into what we're doing.
Great job, Joe.
joe biggs
Well, I'm telling you, I probably told the least.
This is probably, you know, nice.
Probably a thousand people what InfoWars was.
I want to see the spike in the site last night because people are all on their phone.
Where do I get that?
I was like, you gotta go to the Infowars store, man.
You're gonna love it.
dan friesen
So sorry about the sound on the clips from this episode.
It was just glitchy and there was nothing I could do about it.
But beyond that, I think that this is the moment.
This is it.
jordan holmes
The Hillary for prison shirt.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It's because of the potential sales of Hillary for prison shirts.
dan friesen
I think that they don't say it there at all.
But I fucking love and hate how my perspective keeps changing based on the information that we keep getting.
But I legitimately think that that moment for them is transformative.
Because they realize this is a whole market we can tap into.
jordan holmes
Your argument is Alex Jones loves Trump now because of t-shirt sales.
dan friesen
Well, even go beyond t-shirt sales.
It's a market, a fertile market that we can tap into.
Alex Jones couldn't get an arena of people to show up somewhere.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
Trump shows up to town.
He's got a whole stadium full of people.
Joe Biggs comes in, charms him, does some, like, grifty door-to-door salesmanship with their shirts.
I imagine behind the scenes they did see- What do I need you to do to get you into a t-shirt today?
I imagine- I don't know this, but I imagine behind the scenes they saw a spike in traffic to the site, probably got a bunch of sales from it, and they're like- This might be something we need to do.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
So I think that...
jordan holmes
I mean, I think we always knew that there would be some sort of crass capitalism to it.
unidentified
Totally.
jordan holmes
But this is...
This is too much, right?
dan friesen
Well, that's field testing it, though.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's taking it to the streets.
unidentified
Taking it to the streets!
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
Quote the doobs.
jordan holmes
All right, we're done with that.
dan friesen
So that's where we leave off on the 15th.
There's a whole bunch of other...
Dumb bullshit that happens on that show.
Alex Jones does reveal, he doesn't want to reveal it, but he does say that it costs him over $15 million to run InfoWars for a year.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So, if you take that number and you consider...
jordan holmes
That seems honest.
That seems to make sense, right?
About $15 million makes sense.
dan friesen
Well, yeah, it's...
It's in the realm of believable, especially considering he runs it out of Texas and what have you.
jordan holmes
Say he's exaggerating as always.
I would say 10 million does make sense, though.
dan friesen
Let's meet in the middle at 12. But be that as it may, it doesn't matter.
jordan holmes
I'm glad you and I can come to a detente on this.
dan friesen
It doesn't really matter whether the number is 10 or 15. Right.
Because the money bomb that we're about to get into, because we're about to jump into the 16th, which is the beginning of the money bomb.
28-hour live broadcast.
jordan holmes
Jesus.
dan friesen
He doesn't...
He's trying to make a million dollars.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that...
jordan holmes
Publicly, he's trying to make a million dollars.
dan friesen
Right, but...
jordan holmes
He's trying to make a certain amount of money.
Hopefully, it's a million.
dan friesen
Right, but all of the things that he says he wants to do with that million dollars is weird hypothetical stuff about shooting the show into Europe.
Which he said already, we're not going to do that immediately, we're going to get the satellites, blah blah blah.
And then the rest of it is stuff he's already doing.
Paying for reporters, paying for cameras, paying for syndication, paying for closed captioning.
He's doing all of that already.
So all of that million dollars is just operating expenses that he already has accrued.
The idea that he needs this million dollars for Future stuff.
unidentified
Expansion.
Is absurd.
dan friesen
If you watch, I watch them.
Because these are, I watch this shit on YouTube.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
His studio looks exactly the same as it does now.
There is no, from 2015 to 2017, there is no discernible change that has been made in terms of the studio.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but there's upkeep.
dan friesen
There are no people who are there that aren't...
jordan holmes
Rapaport.
dan friesen
No, fuck off.
Rapaport works for free.
jordan holmes
Rappaport probably does work for free.
dan friesen
Rappaport's a soldier.
jordan holmes
Rappaport probably does work for free.
dan friesen
But hear me out.
The way I wanted to end that sentence is there isn't a greater number of people that work there that aren't balanced out by the less number of people who have quit since this change happened.
So there isn't really a wide expansion that has happened.
He's pretended that an expansion in his audience has happened.
If you look at the statistics that are available on Quantcast and other tracking sources, that hasn't happened.
If you look at the numbers that are on his YouTube videos, even, they aren't what he says they are.
Unless you add all of them up and assume that all of them are different people.
But be that as it may, he's trying to raise money for a fictitious thing that didn't happen.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Now, I understand your point.
To me, though...
It seems like it's exactly the same thing as an NPR.
Like, hey, we do live entirely upon public money.
But because he can't supplicate himself, because he can't be somebody who asks for operating costs, he has to say it this way.
dan friesen
It's possible.
Like a hyper-masculine NPR?
jordan holmes
It's a fundraiser.
It's a hyper-masculine fundraiser.
That's what it seems like to me so far.
dan friesen
Right, but typically NPR is not going to go hypothetically out of business if they don't make the money by the end of the year.
jordan holmes
True.
dan friesen
And I feel the panic in Alex.
jordan holmes
I don't think he's going to go out of business.
He would have to...
dan friesen
Reduce his standard of living.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
The reason that it strikes me as false, and I understand what you're saying, and I think there is a kernel of it, because...
I know that it's easy for us to give a pass to NPR because we're bougie-ass liberals and be like, hey, Alex is trying to raise money.
What a dumbass.
And that's what he would think we're doing.
jordan holmes
Which, by the way, you can donate to Knowledge Fight if you go to the Knowledge Fight website and click on our link.
dan friesen
Thank you to all the policy wonks.
jordan holmes
No, for real.
Thank you to all the policy wonks.
dan friesen
That's not at all what I'm getting at.
The circumstances of it are much more interesting.
Because he's presenting a fictitious expansion of the show.
So that's one.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
He's doing it at the end of the fiscal year, which is two.
And then the third is he's in this will-they-won't-they situation with Trump that is super fucked up.
jordan holmes
That's the thing I think we're talking about.
It's not about that he needs money.
It's that because he needs money, there is motive there in order to make the pivot.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
That's what we're talking about.
And then maybe...
So NPR is never going to do a fundraiser and then stealth vote for a candidate because of it.
dan friesen
No.
Legitimate news sources don't have...
They aren't doing subversive marketing.
jordan holmes
The Guardian is now saying, like, hey...
Journalism needs to be paid for.
And rather than put us behind a paywall, we need you to donate to it.
Or we'd like it if you donated to it.
At no point would The Guardian all of a sudden become the fucking Daily Mail because Trump gave them...
Well, at least we would hope not.
dan friesen
I would hope not.
jordan holmes
Because Trump gave them $10 million or whatever.
dan friesen
Legitimately, I believe that there is probably...
A future better civilization that involves all public financing for presidential campaigns, political campaigns, and journalism.
jordan holmes
Public financing for campaigns and journalism does make a lot of sense.
dan friesen
Those sorts of things need to be incredibly unbiased.
And it's impossible to have no bias.
Like, we fucking hate Alex Jones, and we hate Trump.
But at the same time...
unidentified
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
jordan holmes
I'm unbiased about Trump.
I think you can go back and look at my previous statements and note that I have no bias towards Trump.
dan friesen
Our bias is incredibly clear, but at the same time, when Alex Jones has said stuff that's like, yeah, rock and roll, we've been totally cool with it.
We don't hate him in such a way that we will never give him props.
Also, Alex, you really need to look into what Jeff Sessions is doing with civil asset forfeiture.
jordan holmes
Oh my god.
dan friesen
So far, no comment on that that I've seen.
He might have talked about it and I missed it.
If it did, I apologize.
jordan holmes
So if Sessions did or didn't commit a crime because he's under investigation for it, don't we get to take his stuff by his own rules?
dan friesen
That's a great point.
jordan holmes
Don't we get to steal his stuff?
dan friesen
You gotta seize those assets.
jordan holmes
I wanna seize his assets.
Can we make a citizen civil forfeiture?
dan friesen
That would be great.
I would just like to take like maybe 60 bucks from him.
jordan holmes
Oh, absolutely.
dan friesen
Help me get to the end of the month.
So, speaking of things that have to do with money, Jordan, it is time for The Money Bomb!
Here's the bad news.
jordan holmes
Let's edit that out.
Let's edit out our...
dan friesen
No, that's staying in.
That's staying in.
Don't want it.
The Money Bomb is incredibly boring.
jordan holmes
Of course it is.
27 hours or whatever the fuck it was?
dan friesen
I didn't watch any of it that didn't have Alex Jones on it.
jordan holmes
Smart.
dan friesen
But there is one piece that I wish I had watched that I didn't watch and I won't.
Because why would I do that?
Why would I put myself through it?
jordan holmes
Yeah, you've already hurt yourself enough on our behalf.
dan friesen
Here's something that we didn't realize about the money bomb.
It is at the end of the fiscal year.
But do you know what else happened on September 16th?
jordan holmes
No!
dan friesen
The second Republican...
Presidential debate.
unidentified
Ooh!
dan friesen
So they timed it to be on the night of the debate.
jordan holmes
Oh shit, that's really smart.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's really smart of them.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You gotta give them credit for that.
That's brilliant.
dan friesen
So during the debate, what they did is Leanne McAdoo, David Knight, and I think Rob Dew?
I can't remember the third person.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
But they had a panel that Mystery Science Theatered.
The debate.
So what they did is they had their silhouettes.
jordan holmes
No shit.
dan friesen
Full on the backs of their heads.
jordan holmes
Fucking wow.
dan friesen
And I saw a couple clips of it and it's lunacy.
jordan holmes
They didn't even hire Mike Nelson for like a day?
Nothing.
No professionals on this.
dan friesen
No fake robot either.
Alex, it would be so easy to just create a robot to put in there.
You could get even probably the real gypsy.
Who cares?
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
He hates gypsies, though.
I should be clear about that.
All right.
jordan holmes
I don't like even using the word gypsy.
dan friesen
On September 10th, he did talk about how the gypsies have free reign to steal RVs in Europe.
jordan holmes
Nope.
That's a fucking racist thing from the 1700s.
What are you doing talking about gypsies?
dan friesen
It's wild.
So, the schedule of the 27-hour, 28-hour broadcast.
It was really disappointing.
They had that, you know, mystery science theater, blah, blah.
They had Alex Jones for his show on the beginning of it, on the 16th, and the Alex Jones show on the 17th.
Beyond that, it was just like, their reporters tag-teamed, like Kit Daniels did a show.
jordan holmes
Never, never heard Kit Daniels.
dan friesen
He's a writer.
He's a writer guy.
He's not really on air all that much.
unidentified
That always goes well when you put a writer guy on air.
dan friesen
Some of these other guys, like, just people, Rob Dew interviewed Leo Zagami, you know, the Illuminati insider who hates the Pope.
They did that at midnight.
Not at midnight.
That was, like, 2 a.m.
It was just nonsense.
They had fucking Paul Joseph Watson doing a bunch of stuff on the off hours because he's on Greenwich Mean Time.
So, it's, again...
You're doing an overnight thing where no one has to stay up overnight, except for Rob Dew.
But be that as it may.
jordan holmes
Look, Rob Dew is kind of our tortured slave of Infowars here.
dan friesen
I start to like him more and more as time goes on.
I'm not comfortable with that.
jordan holmes
He's kind of, to me, he's kind of a Charlie Brown, like...
There's the football right there and Rob Dew is about to kick it and it is always pulled out from underneath.
dan friesen
I think behind the scenes he's probably way worse than he appears because he just seems so boring.
I bet behind the scenes he's a dick.
jordan holmes
Probably.
dan friesen
Because how would you stay in this business for like years?
jordan holmes
That's a really good point.
Unless he's Renfield.
Have you considered that he is actually mind controlled by Alex Jones?
dan friesen
No, because I don't consider those sorts of things because they're lunatic.
I think there's a decent chance there's a good person behind Rob Dew, and that sucks, because he's so fucking boring.
But be that as it may, what we're going to be talking about is specifically and only the Alex Jones portions of the Money Bomb.
So we're going to start with the 16th.
Alex Jones wants to talk to you about his audience size.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
I bet it's pretty big.
alex jones
They brought in the metrics to my house last night, Buckley Hammond and Anthony Gucciardi that I have working.
With outside IT consulting firms.
And they said, you're giving people two-year-old numbers.
Here they are.
They pulled them up in front of me on all the big third-party sites and our own internal server systems.
InfoWars now reaches 41 million individual different people a month.
jordan holmes
This is where we get the 41 million.
alex jones
It has a reach of 1.4 billion total views on the website.
dan friesen
Nope.
alex jones
If you count all of our social media, it is several billion more individual users.
We did a metric run with a major company and looked at our YouTube views just on the top 500 sites carrying our videos.
And it's over 150 million views a month.
And so they're now collating all of that data we'll be releasing soon.
But it appears we're reaching upwards of three and a half billion individual people per month.
There is six.
jordan holmes
What?
alex jones
What?
unidentified
How many people even live on the planet in your world?
dan friesen
It's insane.
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
In full disclosure.
jordan holmes
So six out of the seven billion people on this fucking planet have internet access.
dan friesen
Which isn't true at all.
jordan holmes
That's not even close to true.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Between 3.2 and 3.6 billion have internet.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
Well, then all of them, all of them are Alex Jones listeners.
dan friesen
Here's something that's very interesting.
700 billion of those people who have internet access?
jordan holmes
700 million of those people.
dan friesen
I'm sorry.
700 million of those people live in China.
None of them have access to Infowars.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right!
They don't even have access to it!
dan friesen
No way.
jordan holmes
It's censored!
Holy shit!
dan friesen
That's almost a billion of the people who have access to the internet, who have a censored internet.
Alex Jones spends all his time talking about the chai comms and shit.
jordan holmes
There's no way they can watch it.
No shit!
Of course not!
dan friesen
So that's 700 million of them.
Now it's literally impossible.
jordan holmes
Well, that covers...
So he said there's 6 billion listening to him.
dan friesen
Uh-huh.
jordan holmes
Right.
So that $700 million covers the extra billion?
dan friesen
No, because he's talking about the people who have access to the...
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right!
It's only 3.5 million who actually listen.
3.5 billion who actually listen to him.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
He's saying that they reach.
jordan holmes
What does that even fucking mean?
dan friesen
It's bullshit internet social media nonsense.
It's the same reason he says that Paul Joseph Watson's videos have millions of views.
It's because they post them on Facebook and people scroll past it.
It autoplays and that counts as a play.
Is that real?
jordan holmes
That actually counts as a play?
dan friesen
Yeah, you look at all these nonsense videos that no one's watching, like ad videos, and it says like two million videos.
jordan holmes
I haven't been on Facebook for a good year now.
dan friesen
I remember this from back when I was trolling around on that dumb site.
unidentified
Looking up old girlfriends.
dan friesen
That's what most people do.
Also, we really have to point out, He's double, triple, and quadruple counting shit.
There's absolutely no way.
Because he's talking about the top hundred sites that post our videos.
jordan holmes
Which we've already established is, he's at like, what?
He's not even in...
The top 200?
dan friesen
No, no, no.
He's talking about the places that post his...
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
Okay, okay.
dan friesen
But do you understand how YouTube's analytics work?
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
If you...
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, no, but as you've explained them to me in regards to Alex Jonesy, yes.
dan friesen
If you embed a video on your blog, let's say, from YouTube, and someone plays it from the blog, it counts as a hit on YouTube.
But if there is, you know, this...
This blog post that is about your video, you can count that as another hit.
jordan holmes
So it's two hits for every single person who does either.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
So you've already doubled your hits even though it's only one view.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And Alex Jones is doing that all over the fucking place.
jordan holmes
So if there's like five websites, all of them you read because you're an avid info warrior.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And there's probably like...
jordan holmes
You get ten views.
dan friesen
WorldNet Daily reposts their stuff.
Yeah.
Breitbart has, in the past, reposted their links and their videos.
jordan holmes
How many...
Well, just with the emails Trump has sent out to all of his donors with Infowars links on it.
dan friesen
And he's actually...
In that link, there was a video embedded.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
So that counts.
jordan holmes
That counts double.
dan friesen
There's massive manipulation going on there in terms of the audience size.
And that is exactly how you want to start the money bomb.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
That's how you want to start it.
We're reaching 3.5 billion people a month.
That's everyone in the world.
Because consider it.
Think about how many children there are.
You know what I'm saying?
We talk about there being 7 billion people, 7.5 billion people in the world.
How many of those people are under 12?
jordan holmes
Most of them are dying and most of them are just born.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So 3.5 billion is every adult, basically.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that is basic.
That's more than every adult.
dan friesen
Basically.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
And then you consider the amount of people who have no internet access.
You consider Chinese.
And they're not the only country that restricts the internet.
jordan holmes
No, of course not.
dan friesen
So you have other countries that have blocked internet.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Saudi Arabia.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You consider those populations, his numbers make no fucking sense.
His best way of trying to...
jordan holmes
At best, he's reaching 10 guys.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
And one of them's me.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So you're down 10%.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He tries to sort of like couch it and he's like, now maybe people are coming to our site from different devices.
So maybe we're reaching a billion a month.
And even that's crazy.
jordan holmes
So wait.
So if you check your Facebook on your computer, and then you check your Facebook on your phone, that counts as a different view.
dan friesen
Well, I think if you track IP addresses, yeah.
I think that is the case.
Especially if you're using mobile.
Like if you're on the bus and you check your Facebook, it would be different than you checking it from your laptop at home.
jordan holmes
So that's multiple views on top of that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And it makes it incredibly difficult to tell exactly what your metrics are.
Unless you have...
He's not doing legit work in terms of statistics.
unidentified
No, no, no.
dan friesen
It's so crazy to me, but I love it.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
I love it.
I love it.
That's the kind of stuff I love.
Because after that...
jordan holmes
Because it's math.
There's no arguing with math.
All of this other stuff, we can deal with reality versus non-reality.
And there is a question there, and there are kernels of truth.
In this regard, it is pure analytics.
You're lying.
And you know you're lying.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And I cut the clip, and where he goes from there is to talk about how, like, I'm humbled that I'm talking to this many people.
It's like...
Do you know you're lying?
What's going on here?
jordan holmes
He knows.
He has to know.
dan friesen
It's this presentation of humility that's really fascinating.
jordan holmes
He has to know.
There's no possible way he doesn't know.
dan friesen
Alex, beyond his bullshit about his audience size, he has some other things he wants to talk about on The Money Bomb.
In this next one, Jordan...
I've said a lot of things are not true that Alex Jones says in the past.
jordan holmes
I don't know how many, but it's astronomical.
It's maybe three and a half billion things that you have said are not true that Alex has said.
dan friesen
This next one is bigly not true.
jordan holmes
Ooh, I don't like that one.
alex jones
Because I never get scared when I'm awake during the day.
I always start crying when I think about this because I don't want to leave my kids alone now more than ever.
My children need me now more than ever.
I'm pretty much...
I'm the only people there for them.
And I know in my heart that as all this unfolds, this show's going to get bigger and more popular to a dangerous level because we know what's going on.
I've been told by top globalists that I'll be just fine until all this comes true, and then that's when I better stop.
dan friesen
I want to go back there.
jordan holmes
Yeah, go back and play that.
I got angry and it screwed everything up.
I apologize.
dan friesen
It's alright.
alex jones
And I've been told by top globalists that...
I'll be just fine until all this comes true, and then that's when I better stop.
And the criticism is, what do you want money for if you're ready to stop?
Oh, I'm not going to stop during the collapse.
I'm going to go to the next level and put everything on the table and be all in.
That's what you do when the enemy comes in like a flood.
This is the end of the West, the end of humanity as we know it.
This is a total satanic takeover.
Don't you understand it's real?
dan friesen
No, it's not.
unidentified
But...
dan friesen
He got told by a top globalist.
jordan holmes
What top globalists are talking?
dan friesen
George Soros?
Is he hanging out with Soros?
alex jones
Why is he?
jordan holmes
What?
Okay, you believe that the globalists are demonic beings from a different dimension.
dan friesen
Which I would say, if that is true, if you see one, kill it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Right?
Why would you have a patient conversation?
dan friesen
Why would you go to a cocktail party with one?
unidentified
Hey, listen.
jordan holmes
I know you're a demonic monster hellbent on destroying humanity.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
But, come on.
You got any juicy inside tips for me?
Like, what are you...
I'm doing a radio show.
Come on, man.
alex jones
Am I safe?
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Am I safe?
That's right, because that's what he's talking about.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
He's talking to these top globalists who are like, keep on your...
Keep on your shit.
Until we win.
In which case, you better get out.
dan friesen
This goes back to what we were talking about at the beginning of this episode.
This idea of the internet version of the elites and the Illuminati.
They need to have everyone know what they're doing.
It's that lesser magic idea.
You need to know what we're doing to you, and then if you don't do anything, you consent to it.
They're using Alex as a conduit.
to tell people what they're doing to them.
And if they don't fight back, then whatever.
jordan holmes
Unfucking believable.
dan friesen
What's magical about that entire line of argument is, hey, the only way to really fight back is give Alex Jones money.
Yeah.
unidentified
He's the only one who's saying this crazy bullshit.
dan friesen
I guess if I don't really support him, then I consented to being destroyed.
And then demons are going to take over.
It's brilliant.
jordan holmes
That is brilliant.
It's brilliant.
That is brilliant.
dan friesen
It's so fucking stupid.
jordan holmes
I don't think you can...
I don't think most of his listeners would be able to articulate exactly what line of, or that train of logic that you just put forward.
dan friesen
No, because they have too much fluoride in the water.
jordan holmes
But it makes perfect sense.
unidentified
Of course.
jordan holmes
If you are an insane person.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Or if you're just an afraid person, because that's what this, it's not that these people are all insane, it's that they're terrified and they don't know what's going on.
dan friesen
I've spent a lot of periods of my life in various stages of paranoia and anxiety.
I have mental illness.
I've done a lot of drugs in the past.
And so I know weird head spaces.
Yeah.
unidentified
And I can sort of, I can suss out where things are coming from.
dan friesen
Right.
unidentified
And I, I, I. I don't mean to put too fine a point on this, but I've dwelt in the weirdest parts of the internet, like these conspiracy forums and these weird Illuminati forums, these message boards.
dan friesen
I've read all this stuff that people talk about, and none of it's based on anything.
And so much of it is mirrored in what Alex is talking about.
This idea of the lesser magic, the idea that we've got to tell you, then you're in.
It's so dumb.
It's so based on nothing.
And it's so manipulative.
And that's what he's doing.
It's great.
I love it.
Top globalists say he's safe.
jordan holmes
Why?
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
Who is...
How is he even getting a meeting with top globalists?
dan friesen
He runs into them all the time.
Remember, he talked to that one on the plane.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
dan friesen
He runs into them all the time.
That's right.
And they keep calling him, trying to get him to join up.
jordan holmes
They are everywhere.
They need to join up.
unidentified
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, I got you.
They're always courting Alex Jones.
You're right.
dan friesen
So, Alex...
jordan holmes
It's such a frustrating part of the mythology that...
Just like his fucking Prometheus bullshit, like...
We need to be more like Prometheus, who God loved!
And you're like, wait, no, hold on one second.
You don't understand.
dan friesen
No, no, no, you misinterpreted that.
jordan holmes
Oh, I did?
dan friesen
Yeah, you misinterpreted that.
unidentified
How so?
dan friesen
Because what he's saying is the God that I would be into, the elite version that I would be into, is that one who brings us Promethean fire.
Now, Prometheus did bring us the fire and then got his liver packed out.
jordan holmes
He got wrecked for it.
dan friesen
Yeah, but that's the sacrifice that he makes for humanity.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So Alex's point is actually very valid in that case, is that the god that I would worship is the one that builds us up, because Prometheus did give us fire.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but I don't think there is one.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Also, there's not a god.
Shh, quiet.
We have a lot of Christian knowledge fighters.
dan friesen
Yeah, I bet we do.
I fucking bet we do.
And if you do, God bless you.
I don't care.
I don't think there's anything intrinsically negative about religion.
I think it can bring a lot to your life.
jordan holmes
No comment.
dan friesen
So, this next clip, Alex Jones has been on his bullshit for about ever about these liberals want to kill cops.
jordan holmes
Yes.
Oh, God.
I don't want to get into the cop narrative.
dan friesen
No, this one's fun.
Okay.
He has an interview with this guy named James Wesley Rawls, who runs a site.
jordan holmes
That's a great name.
dan friesen
It's not bad.
jordan holmes
That's a great name.
dan friesen
Good for a serial killer.
jordan holmes
Got three names.
dan friesen
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
I would totally be serial killed by that guy.
dan friesen
He runs a website called survivalblog.com.
He tells you how to survive.
Serial killers.
unidentified
Like the Globlest.
jordan holmes
He tells you how to survive his own serial killings.
dan friesen
I think it's a lot of prepping stuff.
jordan holmes
If you don't want to be murdered by me, here's a step-by-step list of instructions.
unidentified
Don't piss me off.
dan friesen
That's it.
That's the whole blog.
He is a guy who used to come on on Skype.
I'm basing this on what Alex has told us.
He used to come on on Skype.
Now you don't even want your picture out there because you're so freaked out.
jordan holmes
Too much.
dan friesen
Weirdo.
Gotcha.
Most of the show is an interview with this guy.
They get into talking about cop-killing rhetoric and what have you.
Here's that clip.
alex jones
It's a paradox.
They're awake, but they still follow orders.
The citizens are awake.
We still put up with it.
Meanwhile, leftists are out killing police, so they're so fired up, once we demonstrate, they'll attack us.
I wish there was some sophistication out there that everyone not be played like fiddles.
unidentified
Right.
Well, right now we have a lot of people being played like puppets, indeed, where radicals are being pushed toward killing police officers, for example, where, you know, there wasn't even talk of that for about a 25 period in this country.
You have to go all the way back to late 1960s or early 70s with the Black Panther movement to see, you know, the...
At the time, they referred to it as the Kill the Pigs movement.
NWA!
Fucking anybody!
That kind of went quiet for a long, long time in this nation.
And seeing that re-emerge is very troubling.
dan friesen
That's very troubling.
What's more troubling...
unidentified
Fucking listen to anybody who's not fucking white!
dan friesen
NWA had fucked the police in 1988.
jordan holmes
What is this too...
unidentified
Body count had cop killer in 1992.
jordan holmes
How many times...
How many times does this happen to, this happens to so many white people?
dan friesen
9-1-1 is a joke, came out in 1990.
jordan holmes
So many white people.
So many white people always come with a, I've never heard this shit before.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
When did they start talking about this?
It got, like, fucking everybody always!
dan friesen
And that, I mean, I think that's really, like...
When we talk about feminism and racism and these sorts of things, and how blind Alex is to so many things, and how reactionary he is, a lot of it really does boil down in some ways to, like, you're not listening.
You're not listening.
jordan holmes
And maybe the larger avenue there is just that nobody was...
In your world was talking about it.
Because that was a thing.
If you go back to the 80s with NWA, you see all those local news spots going like, is rap out of control?
All of those different things.
And never are black people being murdered by the cops!
dan friesen
Now let's take reality out of it and sensible discourse out of it.
Let's just remove that for a second.
jordan holmes
Which is the entire focus of this podcast.
dan friesen
Think about how many people We're fucking talking about taking out the police after the Rodney King stuff.
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
And that was not in the 60s.
larry nichols
No.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
dan friesen
So, I mean, like, even that is just a very clear example of fucking James Wesley Rawls is an idiot.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
He is a fucking ahistorical idiot.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But, hey, you know what?
He's got a blog, and that's pretty cool.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
So, James Wesley Rawls is naughty.
One of his basic arguments that he's making within this interview is that the globalists created radical Islam in order to fight against them.
jordan holmes
Logical.
dan friesen
Like, they're fighting against the West, because they needed a better enemy.
jordan holmes
Controlled opposition.
dan friesen
Yeah, they needed a...
jordan holmes
We had the Nazis, now we gotta get Islam.
dan friesen
They need a scary enemy that they can fight against, and in that way, curtail our freedoms, and then create a one-world religion that is partially Islamic, and a one-world government.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
It's nonsense.
But again, it doubles back into this shit that Alex talks about, where you're radicalizing the enemy that you are imagining.
In order to justify your radical nature.
Yeah.
There's a ton of that in his discourse.
And, like, this is the fucking money bomb.
Most of the show...
unidentified
That's right.
jordan holmes
This is the money bomb we're into.
dan friesen
Most of the show...
jordan holmes
It's fear.
It's fear.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
The money bomb is fear.
dan friesen
Fear, and we are much more numerous than you think.
You are not alone.
It's all of us.
There's 3.5 billion of us.
Don't feel bad.
jordan holmes
Don't eat to us because you're just one of...
It's like when a busker has a dollar bill already in his hat whenever he pulls it out.
You're priming the pot.
You're making sure that people know it's okay.
dan friesen
Yeah, there's 3.5 billion people behind you.
But just fucking support us because we're the only ones fighting these fake globalists.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Before Rawls gets out...
jordan holmes
Can you imagine how much money he would have?
unidentified
If he actually reached three and a half billion people.
dan friesen
Well, if everyone gave him a quarter.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Oh, man.
dan friesen
And considering the insane markup he has on these products, even when they're on sale, which I didn't even mean to bring up, but let's fucking talk about it.
jordan holmes
Okay, let's get into it.
dan friesen
During the money bomb, unprecedented sales.
jordan holmes
Is it like an Easter sale?
dan friesen
Yeah, he's constantly talking about like...
Alright, got the Brain Force.
That's on sale until the show is over.
Got free shipping on everything.
jordan holmes
Infomercial style.
dan friesen
He's basically talking about things being at cost.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Just like, gotta move it.
That sort of thing.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
He's like, hey, this is a lost leader.
Everyone's gonna come in and make money on it.
Which is bullshit.
jordan holmes
I mean, well...
dan friesen
He's pretending.
jordan holmes
If you are looking at the end of the fiscal year, though...
You've got to get that product out of there.
If you're selling it, it's revenue.
It doesn't matter if you're making a profit on it or not.
It's still money you have.
dan friesen
And it's not like that stuff you bought isn't going to factor into the end of the fiscal year.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
You're balancing the books in some ways, even if you sell it for no profit.
Which might...
jordan holmes
I don't know when we got into business.
dan friesen
I don't know when this happened.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
You are an accountant.
dan friesen
But it might still be like...
jordan holmes
I'm just an interested party.
dan friesen
It might be indicative of the fact that he is...
He may be overbought and is in a hole or just is in a hole generally.
I don't know.
Anyway, Rawls, before he gets out of the episode, has to say one of the scariest things I've heard a guest say on Alex Jones' show.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
Here we go.
steve quayle
There's going to be huge numbers of Christian refugees in the coming decades, and I believe that there is actually a need for a new homeland nation for persecuted Christian and Messianic Jewish refugees who are going to be pushed out of countries in huge numbers in the years to come, and that's why I decided to write my Counter-Caliphate Chronicles series.
unidentified
That first novel...
steve quayle
Land of Promise describes the establishment of a Christian homeland nation, and I also made it fictionally a Christian libertarian nation to illustrate a lot of other points, but I do think that that is needed, and we need to pray that God would provide a safe haven for persecuted Christians all over the world.
dan friesen
I would argue that most of the time when religiously specific countries have been created, it hasn't gone great.
jordan holmes
The thing I hear there, though, is that he's saying so many Christian refugees, we need a homeland nation, and we're creating a counter-caliphate, which is like...
dan friesen
The counter-caliphate is the name of his novel series that he's written.
jordan holmes
But the point being, we hate this thing that is persecuting us.
So let's make exactly that thing.
dan friesen
But our version.
jordan holmes
But our version.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's insane to me.
dan friesen
That mentality pervades Alex Jones' guests.
jordan holmes
Well, that's a good point.
dan friesen
I don't understand why you're shocked by that.
jordan holmes
I know, but it just...
Well, and frankly, this is what we've been talking about for months now.
dan friesen
Yeah, basically forever.
jordan holmes
But it never fails to surprise me that people don't stop for one fucking second and think...
Oh, well, this thing is bad, so let's not do this thing.
dan friesen
Well, because they have this...
jordan holmes
But then again, you know what?
At the same point, every Democrat said, you know, when they go low, we go high.
dan friesen
Not every Democrat.
jordan holmes
Well, no, not every Democrat.
But Marty DeRosa, a fucking policy wonk and friend of the show, he and I were having this conversation where it's like...
We all said when they go low, we go high.
And now we're kind of at the position where it's like, oh, when they go low, you fucking go goddamn lower.
Fucking get into there.
So I don't know.
dan friesen
I don't know.
unidentified
Right?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Don't punch somebody when they've taken out your knees.
Like, I don't know.
dan friesen
That's not in any way justifying the idea of, like, we need our own Christians.
jordan holmes
No, pogroms.
Pogroms.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So the rest of Alex Jones' September 16th show for the Money Bomb.
jordan holmes
Before we go any further, I do think he's right.
There will be a lot of Christian refugees, in the same way that there will be a lot of refugees total.
dan friesen
Period.
jordan holmes
Immediately following, like, considering the effects of climate change, what does happen in our country in specific, right?
So right now we have a shit ton of Muslim refugees from all of these places.
dan friesen
But not entirely.
jordan holmes
It's not all Muslims.
But my point is that so many people are up in arms about this.
When we just start talking about refugees with no religion in front of it, think about how many Christian refugees and how many all of these things.
dan friesen
Everyone's going to scapegoat depending on the adjective that is part of the refugee part.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
How many Christian refugees?
What's the number before people start saying...
Well, we don't want any more refugees, total.
dan friesen
It's the fun part of complaining about refugees stuff because, like, hey, they're going to be Christians while you deny climate change.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
It's a fun game to play.
jordan holmes
Like, this is going to happen.
dan friesen
It's a fun, fun game.
jordan holmes
What's the number, though?
Like, how many...
For fuck's sakes, imagine we're talking about Rome.
All of the Catholics.
For whatever reason, need to move.
How many people in the United States before it starts going like, well, we can't allow any refugees in.
Regardless of religion.
We just can't allow refugees in.
dan friesen
But let's even imagine a scenario wherein, and this may not be the case, I'm not saying it necessarily is, but let's imagine a scenario where it just so happens that Muslim dominated countries.
Happen to be the places that are safer from climate change.
Let's imagine that.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
So let's imagine, like, Saudi Arabia is a place that is unaffected by climate change.
And now these Catholics that are displaced...
jordan holmes
Because it's a fucking desert, so...
dan friesen
And now it's wonderful.
jordan holmes
Yeah, now it's a fucking utopia.
dan friesen
So let's imagine these Catholics from the south of Italy, where it's flooded...
To shit.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Now have to find a place.
jordan holmes
Venice is fucking gone.
dan friesen
Done.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So now they have to go somewhere and they go into Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia, I mean, let's not unpack all of their negative cultural problems.
jordan holmes
Let's just talk about people coming in.
dan friesen
Let's say that they have a way of life and these Catholics come in and want to change everything.
unidentified
Yeah.
Ugh.
Ugh.
jordan holmes
How is it that people can't do that next step thought?
Think about that reciprocity.
dan friesen
I think people are too caught up in their identity.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's probably true.
dan friesen
That's why whenever we talk about Alex Jones, I don't like to call him a white supremacist.
I like to say that he's caught up in white identity.
White Christian male identity.
Because that, I think, is more to the point than saying he's a white supremacist.
It's way too easy to say that he thinks he's better than everybody, because of course he does.
But what really motivates him is his identification with what makes him white, what makes him male, what makes him Christian.
I mean, I read a really interesting assessment of...
Someone was pointing out that a lot of homophobia is based on a fear by really aggressive, angry dudes that men will treat them like they treat women.
And I think that there is a bit of that in...
jordan holmes
That's a really good thought.
dan friesen
I think there's a lot of that in tons of this stuff.
Alex is afraid that...
Minorities will treat him how he thinks about them.
jordan holmes
It's reciprocity.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's what they're really afraid of, all of their crimes coming back against them.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
They're afraid of karma.
dan friesen
In many ways, yeah.
So the rest of the...
jordan holmes
That's just the thing that I have always considered, and it is one of those things in the later stages of Obama's presidency.
That I was concerned about is because of that executive overreach, because of how much power we gave Obama, Trump now has that power.
We just never considered that it could be used against us.
dan friesen
That's not true.
I mean, I agree with the point, but when that was happening, when that executive power was given to Obama, there were people such as myself and other folks, you as well, who were like, this is not good.
There should not be, like, and it goes back to Bush, the idea of being able to unilaterally launch wars.
That sort of thing is not in the power of the executive.
The executive branch became way too strong, and even with Obama in power, I know tons of Democrats and liberal-minded people who are super against that, and it wasn't enough.
It wasn't enough to sway the Congress, sway the actual people.
Who made decisions.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Imagine...
Yeah.
No.
I'm out.
I'm out.
That's insane.
It's insane.
dan friesen
It's political opportunism by the...
I mean, if we keep this conversation going more than another 10 minutes, we're going to say let's overthrow everything.
Because I think...
jordan holmes
This whole thing has been me just pushing you closer to my side.
dan friesen
Little do you know, I'm already there.
jordan holmes
Don't reveal that.
Don't reveal that.
You're our cover.
dan friesen
So, September 16th.
jordan holmes
I'm the revolution.
You're the one who's keeping us legitimate.
dan friesen
Part one of the Money Bomb.
It ends with a long interview with Dr. Group.
Dr. Group runs the fourth hour of the show before they hand it off to whoever dumbass.
Maybe Joe Biggs.
I'm not entirely sure.
jordan holmes
Who cares?
dan friesen
They keep the marathon going.
He's just trying to sell a lot of products.
He does a bunch of bullshit.
But before he leaves, before Alex leaves, he says that his predictions have never been wrong.
He's basically a psychic.
And that his sixth sense is on fire like never before.
jordan holmes
Race memory.
dan friesen
That's a quote.
My sixth sense is on fire like it's never been before.
First of all, I don't think you have a sixth sense.
Don't care.
I think that you are freaked out, certainly.
Then he had this quote that I thought was really fucking awesome.
It was, if you're nouveau riche and you're not giving us money, or, and then there's a long list of things basically that are just about giving him press, like buying us a billboard, that sort of thing.
You're crazy.
unidentified
If you're nouveau riche, is that the way he phrased it?
dan friesen
Like, alright.
Because he wants to delineate between people who have money.
jordan holmes
It's not old money.
It's not old money.
It's the new, it's the dot-com billionaires who he's really courting.
dan friesen
So now.
Here's where things get really fun.
jordan holmes
Where is that?
dan friesen
Alex Jones did his show on September 16th.
Then he was due to come back from 10 to 11 p.m.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
To do an interview with Larry Nichols.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
They were going to do an hour-long interview, and then they were going to premiere a documentary.
Oh, no.
He sent people down to tape Larry Nichols at his house, whose address has been given out on our show.
jordan holmes
And his phone number.
If you'd like to call him, please.
dan friesen
I think we blocked that out.
jordan holmes
Please email knowledgefight.com and I will fucking give you his phone number.
I don't give a shit.
He gave it out on air!
dan friesen
He did.
And it's still on the internet.
On Alex Jones' channel.
But be that as it may, they sent them out there, they made a documentary, and Alex was going to do an hour-long interview with Larry to, like, proceed it.
Larry clearly didn't answer the phone.
On purpose?
I think he was asleep.
The first half hour of the show is Alex Jones vamping like hell.
He's just talking about my early days on radio.
We're great.
It's just like, it's so much filler for like the first 25 minutes of the hour.
jordan holmes
There are two kinds of people.
People on the radio and then people not on the radio.
dan friesen
What he's trying to do is he's trying to say things without getting into anything that he can't bail from if Larry gets on the phone at any point.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
He's in that maintenance, like, let's...
jordan holmes
He's stretching.
dan friesen
Yeah, exactly.
And so about 25 minutes or so, 30 minutes in, Larry Nichols finally gets on the phone, and they just talk about how much Hillary sucks, of course, because that's his bread and butter.
And Larry Nichols drops this chestnut.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
What Hillary needs to do, and what she's going to do, is she's going to make herself the underdog.
That's why she released all this information about the servers.
jordan holmes
Wait.
Hillary released the information about the service herself.
dan friesen
Yes, because she needs to make herself the underdog, which is out of Larry Nichols' playbook from way back in the Arkansas days.
They had to make Bill Clinton an underdog because everyone loves an underdog.
jordan holmes
But Bill Clinton was the underdog.
dan friesen
Right.
It's all nonsense.
And if you actually look at Larry Nichols' actual history with the Clintons...
jordan holmes
No, that doesn't scan at all.
dan friesen
He wasn't involved with any of the stuff he says he was involved with.
So that's his big sort of selling point, is that she did all this shit to herself because the Clintons and the Bushes are dynastic families.
They're always going to be at the top, so they have to make themselves the underdogs in order for you to kind of care about them.
So he goes on to say these next two things on the show that are dumb.
They only have 20 minutes or so to do their interview before they screen the interview.
jordan holmes
Yeah, because they've already bailed on so many hours.
dan friesen
And they spend 10 minutes of it with Alex Jones vamping more because Larry Nichols has to take his dog out to shit.
It's crazy.
jordan holmes
That's cute.
dan friesen
It's humanizing in some ways, but it's terrible radio.
It's terrible.
jordan holmes
Even Hitler's dog loved him.
dan friesen
Yeah, but here is something that Larry Nichols predicts about Hillary that did not come true.
alex jones
You said that first months ago.
Now it's in the news that Obama's after Hillary, and she's even attacking Obama now.
larry nichols
Yeah, here's what you will watch.
Here's what's coming.
They're following our playbook this time exactly, Alex.
She's gonna start the tearing tour.
Now when Hillary goes out, she's gonna tear up.
dan friesen
So that's misogynistic as fuck.
jordan holmes
Now when Hillary goes out, she's going to tear up.
dan friesen
She's going to start crying.
jordan holmes
She's going to start crying.
Because everybody respects a woman who cries.
Everybody's going to be like, oh, this woman cries?
That makes me want her to be president.
There's no inherent misogyny behind a woman crying that, oh, fuck off.
Fuck you, Larry Nichols.
dan friesen
In the same way that Alex always complains that, like, hey, you call me racist and that's your way of taking my power, he believes that, like, oh, well, And now I gotta be chivalrous.
It's that same thing.
It's a load of bullshit.
Also, Hillary Clinton, say what you want about her, did not cry.
She came out and defended herself quite admirably.
Whatever Larry Nichols' idea...
jordan holmes
Say whatever you want about Hillary's campaign.
Hillary fucking brought it.
Gotta give her that.
dan friesen
And she stood up to these attacks.
And didn't...
I mean, she apologized for things that she thought was maybe an error in judgment.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Those sorts of things.
jordan holmes
Yeah, the super predator shit.
dan friesen
Bad.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But didn't back down to this right-wing conspiracy that mostly tracks back to Larry Nichols.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Like, Larry Nichols legitimately is such a problem in the world.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
He's so terrible.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
But as much as he is a problem in terms of all the stuff he's done with the Clintons...
He's a huge problem in general.
Like, I know we've talked about this.
He was saying that Obama wants to become the last president, because then he becomes king.
jordan holmes
Like the Patton Oswalt bit about Bush, where he wants to become the last president.
dan friesen
Right, but he's not doing comedy.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, he's not very funny about this at all.
dan friesen
He will become the king, and then once he's the king, he becomes the king of the Muslims.
jordan holmes
Which will never stop.
dan friesen
That's funny.
jordan holmes
That will never not make me laugh.
dan friesen
That's funny.
jordan holmes
The king of the Muslims!
dan friesen
That's funny.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But, listen to this next clip of Larry Nichols and realize how much he fucking hates Muslims.
And realize...
jordan holmes
This is Nichols hating...
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
This is no longer funny.
jordan holmes
Alright.
alex jones
I just can't believe it.
I just can't believe what...
I mean, what type of psycho scum...
You've been around these people, but I mean, they weren't even that bad back then.
Have they gone crazy?
larry nichols
In my day, bad guys would look good today.
Bad guys back then, honestly, Alex, would be heroes today, if you can believe that.
Remember this term, Ogba El-Amin.
Ogba El-Amin.
And what they're doing with this flood of immigrants that are going all over Europe, that's the spread.
They're moving in.
They're setting up caliphates, buddy.
How about I mean is when they spread, when they spread and they get into, you know, the first one comes in.
Well, gosh, he's a great little Muslim.
You know what?
They're just really nice people.
We could probably let another one in.
Well, then in comes another one.
Well, you know, they're just really nice people.
But read the Koran, folks.
One day...
jordan holmes
I hope you get more lung cancer.
unidentified
Can you get more lung cancer, you fucking pile of garbage?
larry nichols
Three times in the Koran, it says, peace, love, dope.
You got it?
Three times.
Seventy some odd times, it says, try to convert the infidel.
Three times.
jordan holmes
Oh my fucking God, read the Bible, you pile of...
larry nichols
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Look what they did in Africa, Alex.
Convert to Islam or die.
Look at what Christians into Africa!
We can't grow Christianity by saying either.
You believe in Jesus Christ, we're going to cut your head off.
unidentified
Crusades.
larry nichols
They're growing.
jordan holmes
Fucking wild.
larry nichols
We in America have become cowards.
What are we going to do now?
alex jones
Why are you being racist against people saying I'm going to kill you if you don't convert to my religion?
That's liberal.
jordan holmes
That's actually a really good question.
larry nichols
I just can't help it.
Let me ask you this, Alex.
I'm going to pose this question for you.
Dearborn, Michigan, you know, has got a huge population of Muslims.
They even do that little wacky thing, you know, every time of the day where they do the prayer out on the loudspeaker.
Tell me exactly what would happen, Alex, if tomorrow morning we wake up in Dearborn, Michigan, the Muslim community there declares itself a caliphate.
unidentified
Now, what would happen?
alex jones
They would say it's religious freedom to have that area of Michigan be under Islamic rule and the government would submit to it and the left is promoting it.
larry nichols
There's no way, folks.
Do you really believe we would take our government in, Alex, and drive them out of there?
dan friesen
Yeah, probably.
I assume if it was like an insurrection of some sort.
larry nichols
I imagine.
jordan holmes
We put down the Whiskey Rebellion with force.
It's not like we're new to the National Guard coming in to murder people.
dan friesen
Take murder them out of the equation.
The government did what it had to do with the Bundy Ranch.
And that wildlife preserve.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, they did it admirably without killing anybody.
Except for that one guy.
Except for that one guy.
They killed that one guy.
unidentified
But he had it coming.
jordan holmes
When you say admirably, you suggest that it's admirable that they didn't all die.
unidentified
Now, I respect you for that opinion.
dan friesen
Admirable means a lot of restraint.
Because...
jordan holmes
The restraint, I wish they afforded all other people than white.
dan friesen
Right.
I 100% agree with that.
But his presentation of it, like, what if they just declared a caliphate?
Like, well, that's a fun hypothetical.
First of all, not happening.
Second of all, if it did, of course that wouldn't fly.
jordan holmes
What if our country just broke into another and declared a Christian nation?
Like, what kind of monsters would we be?
dan friesen
Or what if, let's say, Dearborn, Michigan had a huge Christian population.
And they decided we are going to be now a completely theocratic Christian city.
jordan holmes
Oh, do you mean just Dearborn?
dan friesen
Like a lot of cities?
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
unidentified
I keep saying how can.
jordan holmes
I keep saying how can as if I don't get the concept behind this.
dan friesen
You're like that girl on Clueless, like as if.
jordan holmes
As if.
I just genuinely believe that human beings are capable of some kind of rational thought.
And I'm consistently proven wrong.
And the worst part is I'm consistently proven wrong in the same fucking episode.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's no rationality here.
So, it's nuts.
Larry Nichols says a bunch of dumbass bullshit, as he's known to do on the streets.
jordan holmes
As is his want.
dan friesen
Yeah, and then they play...
jordan holmes
On the streets, like he's in The Wire.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's Marlo out there.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
My name is my name!
So, Larry Nichols then, they play the documentary.
And I don't have any clips of it, because who gives a fuck?
jordan holmes
They actually...
Okay.
dan friesen
It's just him talking about how, like, now, Hillary, she is not going to be taken down by Benghazi stuff.
She's slippery.
But what's gonna take her down...
Is the documents I have about Vince Foster's murder.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
dan friesen
Which we have already covered him saying that the document that he has about Vince Foster's murder just miraculously showed up in his mailbox.
jordan holmes
Crazy!
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
It showed up in his mail!
unidentified
He gave out his address, and then the document proving Vince Foster was killing him in mail!
dan friesen
Nobody else.
Maybe someone falsified that based on how you keep going on right-wing radio shows.
jordan holmes
I got a Twitter DM saying it was true.
dan friesen
Yep, that's Paul Joseph Watson style.
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
So, like, it is that, and he's just like, ah.
But there's one moment of true comedy where he talks about how I used to be a bad man, I was involved with the Clintons, and then my dad got lung cancer.
And while he's talking about that...
The video is him smoking a cigarette on his porch.
jordan holmes
I don't know why he got lung cancer.
unidentified
It's probably some globalist plot.
jordan holmes
They have cures for lung cancer, don't they?
dan friesen
His life-changing moment that he's describing is brought on by the thing he's doing in the video.
It's crazy.
He's like, I couldn't be involved with these Clintons anymore.
What about if the drugs they brought in my daughter was doing?
jordan holmes
So, was it, like, with Larry Nichols, was it really just him kind of getting fucked over and then realized that he had it?
Yeah, but then he just realized he had a gig?
Just talking shit about the Clintons?
dan friesen
I don't think...
jordan holmes
Like, that was the genesis of so much horrific...
dan friesen
I don't think he had any idea how well this was going to work out.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's possible.
dan friesen
I think he was a bitter, vindictive dude who was a piece of shit and was involved...
jordan holmes
Was?
He is a piece of shit.
dan friesen
He was involved with...
jordan holmes
Until he dies, and we are going to call him on that day.
dan friesen
And I'm not entirely sure what the circumstances were, but he was involved with the Contras.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, he was involved with, like, Ollie North and all them.
That's why he got fired from Clinton's White House.
jordan holmes
Oh, do you mean legitimately?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Crazy.
He kept making collect calls.
jordan holmes
Collect calls.
dan friesen
And shit like that to the Nicaragua.
And that's why he ended up getting fired, because it was a completely traceable thing.
jordan holmes
We have a call for you from Larry Nichols.
Will you accept the charges?
dan friesen
Hang up.
unidentified
Hang up.
No.
dan friesen
He's just going to complain about his dog shitting.
jordan holmes
This motherfucker has lung cancer.
unidentified
Come on, man.
dan friesen
He was involved as a functionary.
He was hired in some way.
I'm not entirely sure what other connections he had at that point.
That's very difficult to trace.
But he got fired.
He blamed Bill for it.
And then created this elaborate backstory that has been shown to be mostly false repeatedly.
jordan holmes
On so many, so many levels.
dan friesen
Again, we've talked about this a bunch, but it bears repeating if you haven't listened to all of our episodes.
He was on a right-wing radio show and claimed to be an assassin who killed people for hire for the Clintons.
He was their hired assassin.
He said that on a radio show.
And then, when asked about it, said, I was high on pills when I was on that show.
I didn't mean to say that.
I never would have said that.
That's the kind of person we're talking about.
He's a liar.
jordan holmes
Important to note, Vince Foster killed himself.
It was not a murder.
dan friesen
And the reason that most people think it's a murder is because of this document that just mysteriously showed up in Larry Nichols.
jordan holmes
And fucking Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
dan friesen
But a lot of that is from Larry Nichols' stuff.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
No, exactly.
They were the ones who publicized it.
They were the drudge report of their time.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But the idea that his body was moved, all that stuff.
The Clintons forced the Park Department to take the murder investigation instead of the FBI.
All that stuff comes from Larry Nichols.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I've seen the document that Larry Nichols has, like they've played it on the Alex Jones show.
jordan holmes
It's crazy that it was written in crayon.
It's really ludicrous.
dan friesen
It might as well have been.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So anyway, that is the late night portion of the 16th.
Now we get to the 17th.
jordan holmes
The money bomb.
dan friesen
The end of the money bomb.
jordan holmes
The money bomb comes to a close.
dan friesen
We are now about 24 hours into the money bomb.
jordan holmes
Jesus.
dan friesen
And Alex Jones is trying to raise a million dollars.
jordan holmes
What kind of lunatic would watch this much?
Info Wars.
dan friesen
You're looking at him.
Fair.
jordan holmes
You don't even watch the David Knight parts.
Come on.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
Like, I understand...
dan friesen
If you're talking about volume, I've watched it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
But I'm not gonna watch when the side characters are involved.
jordan holmes
They're terrible.
But why would you do this...
I just don't understand what it is they think is going to happen.
If you do a 27-hour show versus a 4-hour show.
Like, who is watching?
dan friesen
Can I explain?
jordan holmes
Actually, yes, please.
So much.
dan friesen
Alex Jones knows full well that the only times they're going to be making money are during his show.
But, maybe we get a couple thousand.
Maybe we get a little bit of stragglers.
And I don't have to do any fucking work.
Rob Dew is doing that work.
That's true.
They're doing it, and there's a little bit of a stunt aspect to it.
Maybe some people will throw us a couple thousand dollars because of it, and they're like a big donation.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So there's that.
We need to be a thinner net on the...
It's a drain, and we've got to catch as much as we can.
We've got to tighten the drain.
We've got to make sure we're catching all that hair.
Now, hair is not what you want.
But that hair is money in this metaphor.
unidentified
So you've got to catch all of it.
dan friesen
I'm not thrilled with this.
jordan holmes
I love it.
I love it.
You're crushing it so far.
Keep on going.
dan friesen
It's the difference between using a thick or thin comb.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
It's just like, fine comb.
We've got to get all the money out of this we can.
A whole day, someone will tune in and maybe be like, alright, I love Liberty.
Here's some money.
jordan holmes
See, I just think of it in comparison to...
Like our usual...
Or like with Jimmy Pardo.
But they do that for charity.
But exactly.
Their point, though, is we're going to continue to have a show.
This is going to be something.
We're going to have these different guests.
We're going to have all different types of things for you to tune into.
Even if you're not interested for two hours, like, hey, maybe you're a big fan of Doug Benson or whatever.
dan friesen
Leo Zagami.
jordan holmes
Yeah, so you show up during this section.
unidentified
He was great on podcast.
dan friesen
That would be amazing.
jordan holmes
That would be amazing.
But that's the thing.
Like, other marathons have this kind of idea of, like, we need to keep your attention.
dan friesen
Can I stop you?
jordan holmes
And he doesn't.
dan friesen
Can I stop you?
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
Most marathons have goodwill.
You know, like...
jordan holmes
Fair.
unidentified
Fair.
jordan holmes
Most marathons come from a place of, we want to do good.
dan friesen
You're right.
You're right.
Most of the time, what they're doing, if it's, you know, Jerry's Kids or a podcast-a-thon, they're raising money for charity, and they hope that things are entertaining.
And I've watched podcast-a-thon for years, and boy, a lot of it is not entertaining.
jordan holmes
True.
unidentified
True.
dan friesen
A lot of times it's a slog.
jordan holmes
No argument.
dan friesen
They don't give a fuck.
They don't really care.
It's just a crass marketing campaign.
It's not like this money is going to charity.
Right.
unidentified
He's made it very clear the money is just going to the things we already do.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
He's presenting it as things we're going to do in the future, but it's what they already do.
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
It's just a fucking slapdash.
And he's not even offering mugs to people like NPR does.
Right.
unidentified
So take that part out of it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
unidentified
He's just, it's just madcap desperation.
dan friesen
So when- Yeah.
They were pretty well on their way.
And here's where we start on the 17th.
Here's where the finances are on the beginning of the 17th.
alex jones
We need about a million dollars to be able to not have to flog the advertising and really push things hard to pay for this.
And $560-something thousand dollars.
They're just about to update.
The graph there that shows it has come in.
And the biggest money we ever had brought in about $650,000.
So I guess we're going to break our record today.
Oh, they just updated.
It's more than I thought.
$572,197.
So $572,197.
And so we've already reached the goal for the satellite to close captioning and have over $170,000.
Towards crew, towards travel, towards camera folks, towards editing, towards research, towards reporters.
dan friesen
Crew, research, cameras.
jordan holmes
Research!
Come on!
dan friesen
Don't pretend you're doing that.
jordan holmes
Come on!
dan friesen
But all the other stuff that he lists is stuff that he's already doing.
So, like, he's presenting it as...
Fuck, we're 24 hours in.
We have like $550,000.
We're not making this million.
I think there is a part of him that's realizing, my audience is not as potent as I want.
Because a million dollars, he's been presenting it, this entire lead up to it, as it's not that much money.
We're trying to run a media operation.
It sounds like a lot.
It's not that much.
He's milking this stone.
He's trying to get blood out of this stone.
And all he's been able to do is, I'll tell you this, he ends with $700,000 or so.
Right around there.
Which is $300,000 short of their goal.
Now granted, they do make their goal later, days later.
Because they've just added all of their sales that they've gotten from other stuff.
jordan holmes
But the thing that I think is that at a certain point, he didn't need the money.
I guarantee that he needed Half a million.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
But he wanted a million.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And so it became a thing where now it's not about money, it's about pride.
It's about who am I?
It's about how much do I think I'm worth.
dan friesen
And that's why you can hear a little bit of deflation.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
He expected to wake up.
jordan holmes
It's not desperation, it's deflation.
Exactly like, yeah, it's the word you said.
dan friesen
It's ego damage.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
He expected to wake up and the goal be met.
He expected he'd do this show with Larry Nichols that air that documentary that everyone wants to see.
jordan holmes
Everybody does.
dan friesen
Which is terrible.
Also, it's like 28, 30 minutes long.
It's a disaster.
Fuck.
Everyone should watch it, though.
It's so bad.
It's 30 minutes long?
It's short.
It's Larry Nichols smoking and telling bullshit.
But, like, he expected...
I'm going to come in on this September 17th, the end of the money bomb, and either it's going to be we're at $900,000 and we've just got to get the last push or we're already there.
unidentified
Or it's going to be like $1.5 million.
dan friesen
Right.
I started this money bomb by saying we have 3.5 billion listeners or 3.5 billion people we touch with our social media presence.
And I think he's starting to realize he ain't got shit.
Right.
Which goes back to what I was talking about with Joe Biggs.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
When he went there and did the Superman with his Hillary for Prison shirt and everyone in the fucking arena there for Trump recognized, oh shit, I think that my premise that the money bomb was when money gets funneled in, I was wrong.
But I think the disaster...
Not disaster, necessarily.
I would love $500,000, $700,000.
I would love that.
But the disappointment of how potent his audience is compared to how glorious the reaction was from this Trump audience, I think that those two things do meld in Alex's mind.
jordan holmes
Okay, so you're seeing his money bomb as him recognizing the real extent of his power.
Which is 700 grand.
dan friesen
Which is not as good as he hoped.
jordan holmes
And you see Joe Biggs showing up at a Trump rally as a, like, there is a whole new world right here.
dan friesen
There's an untapped audience.
jordan holmes
That is a lot stronger than our 700 grand.
dan friesen
Yeah.
A lot of people love us for our weird bullshit that we're spitting.
jordan holmes
But if we throw in this stuff on top of it...
dan friesen
They're into some other weird shit.
jordan holmes
I think that's where we get into it.
He thinks he's throwing in the Trump people on top of it as opposed to he's surrendering to the Trump people.
dan friesen
I think that might be the beginning of it.
jordan holmes
That's fascinating.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's really interesting.
dan friesen
I'm not 100% sure, but...
As I've been listening to this.
jordan holmes
I mean, at the fucking point we're at with this investigation, who the goddamn hell knows what's going on?
dan friesen
I know.
Every single time I've been certain of something, I'm wrong.
unidentified
Yeah.
No.
jordan holmes
It's crazy.
There's no...
Yeah, this is...
There's no logic to this at all.
dan friesen
A couple days back when he told Trump he's a punk and shut your fat mouth.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
When I heard that, I was like, holy fuck.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
When I heard that, I was like, well, maybe he never gets on the Trump train at all.
Forgetting the world that we live in now.
dan friesen
When I heard that at work, I texted you.
I was like, this investigation is so fucked up.
I wanted to tell you that.
How the fuck did he say?
jordan holmes
Because of the constraints of the show.
dan friesen
Now, here's where shit gets interesting.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
The debate, the Republican debate, was on the 16th.
jordan holmes
The second one.
dan friesen
The night of the 16th.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And they did their mystery science theater debate thing on the 16th.
Alex was not a part of it.
jordan holmes
Which I'm sure was hilarious.
dan friesen
So much funny.
jordan holmes
So funny.
dan friesen
So funny.
Oh, yeah.
Then...
jordan holmes
They really took down Manos, the hands of fate.
dan friesen
Not libertarian enough.
So, in the next day, Alex gets to respond to the debate stuff.
And so now, we're going to enter...
A little bit of...
jordan holmes
The Thunderdome.
dan friesen
A little bit of debate recap.
Here's Alex Jones giving some of the highlights of last night's debate.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
alex jones
That's coming up.
Senator Cruz says, Planned Parenthood, a criminal enterprise.
One of the best statements of the night.
Big props to Senator Cruz.
dan friesen
This is also based on all the Center for Medical Progress videos.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Ted Cruz is citing all those videos about selling baby parts.
I've cut out so much of Alex complaining about that stuff because it's just so boring.
We don't need to cover it over and over again.
jordan holmes
Anytime anybody references Cruz...
In the context of a phrase that doesn't end with, lost his feet, I'm bummed.
dan friesen
But for the entire span that we've been covering, Alex has been complaining about those Center for Medical Progress videos.
He is talking about how legally, legally, legally, they can take a baby out.
They can take a baby out, right?
jordan holmes
A live baby?
dan friesen
Live baby.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
They drug the woman up.
jordan holmes
What's the name?
dan friesen
Hold on.
They drug the woman up.
And as long as the baby is touching the mother, they can cut it up.
They can cut it up and take the organs.
But if the baby stops touching the mother...
jordan holmes
No.
No, no, no, Dan.
No.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
No, I refuse to even believe that even the most irrational of human beings would accept that as a reasonable response.
dan friesen
Alex has been pitching that as a narrative.
unidentified
It's crazy.
jordan holmes
That can't be true.
dan friesen
So also, a couple days before this, before September 17th.
jordan holmes
It's like a home base argument.
We're talking about home base.
We're talking about Red Rover situation.
Okay.
dan friesen
For cutting up baby.
jordan holmes
Alright, fine.
No, no, no, that's fine.
dan friesen
And that's Planned Parenthood's whole scam.
But be that as it may, I think it was on the 15th of September 2015, the congressional investigation started into these videos and into Planned Parenthood, which now, because we're in the future, we know they cleared them of any wrongdoing and found...
jordan holmes
Any and all wrongdoing.
dan friesen
...and found that those videos were...
Deceitfully manipulated and edited poorly.
jordan holmes
And they have been sued appropriately.
Or, not appropriately, they've been sued.
dan friesen
Well, actually, it's really fucked up.
Since we've started talking about this, like, the court case was still in motion.
jordan holmes
Oh.
dan friesen
Like, just the last week, a bunch of those charges...
We have said in the past that they have 15 felonies that are being put on them.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
A bunch of those charges got dropped.
Like, last week.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
Yeah, I know.
jordan holmes
Why do we live?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
There wasn't a, in this world, it was just, why do we live?
dan friesen
A lot of it comes down to technicalities, and it just becomes like, is it worth prosecuting this further?
jordan holmes
Yeah, you get somebody on tax evasion.
You don't get them on murdering everybody you've ever known.
dan friesen
All that aside, every investigation into whether these videos are full of shit have shown...
unidentified
They feel the shit.
dan friesen
So anyway, that's what Ted Cruz was talking about in a presidential debate.
jordan holmes
Why are we?
dan friesen
And Alex loves it.
So now he's into fucking Cruz.
jordan holmes
He's into Cruz.
dan friesen
Yeah, so here we go.
alex jones
Bush says 40 years ago he smoked marijuana.
I admit it.
Ooh, big deal.
You mean 40 years ago your family shipped cocaine in.
That'd be a bigger admission.
Donald Trump says Rand Paul shouldn't be on the stage and he's ugly.
Trump...
You look pretty goofy to me.
I mean, I'll say it.
Rand Paul's got curly hair, which I don't think looks goofy, but I guess you could say it looks goofy from your perspective.
You look like you have a dead blonde possum on your head, and it used to be brown.
Then it was chimpanzee colored, and now it's blonde.
So you get your hair bleached, Trump, to then turn it blonde.
So if anybody looks like a freak, it's you.
I'm not up here attacking him.
But he can't sit there and make comments about how people look and then not expect to have it thrown back at him.
jordan holmes
Agreed.
alex jones
I mean, it's just unbelievable.
jordan holmes
Good point.
alex jones
It's unbelievable.
Then he goes on to say good things.
Where he talks about the fact that this is a country where we speak English, not Spanish.
jordan holmes
No!
No!
Alex, you had me!
dan friesen
Not great.
jordan holmes
That's a pretty solid burn on Trump, though.
That's not too bad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
It's super unexpected.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Oh, man.
dan friesen
Considering we know that three months after this point, Trump is on Alex's show.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's so fucked up.
What is going on?
jordan holmes
I don't know.
unidentified
He hasn't said any of these negative things.
jordan holmes
How do you not think there's some sort of backroom negotiation going on, right?
dan friesen
Hear me out.
Here's what I think.
jordan holmes
Oh, fuck yes.
Give it to me.
Give it to me, Dan.
dan friesen
I think the payment hasn't cleared.
jordan holmes
You think the check hasn't cleared?
Like he's endorsed it, but he's still like...
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
It's going to bounce.
Why do you think he's surprised to wake up and there's 500,000 in the...
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Why do you think he's disappointed?
jordan holmes
So he's mad because he hasn't reached the million dollar goal yet.
And he thinks that the million dollar goal would have been met if the check had cleared?
dan friesen
I can't tell how fucking...
jordan holmes
That seems crazy.
dan friesen
I can't tell how fucking much of what I'm trying to pitch as...
I'm just trying to make sense of this shit.
I love you.
It's so crazy.
jordan holmes
And I want you to be right.
But that's too far.
dan friesen
But it's nonsense.
Even it, like, take all that...
Because I don't think that's necessarily true.
jordan holmes
I mean, the shit about Trump's hair is absolutely true.
dan friesen
100%.
jordan holmes
Looks exactly like what he described.
dan friesen
Take my nonsense out of it.
The thought that he can be, fuck you, shut your mouth, you're a punk, eh, you're fine, you stop talking about immigrants, whatever.
Oh, you're mad at Rand Paul, I'm gonna fucking attack you.
About your appearance.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
To being, I fucking look, can I suck your dick, please?
unidentified
Yeah.
Within three months is crazy.
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, there's no ground...
jordan holmes
Well, and not just that.
dan friesen
And the idea that once he becomes Trump's cheerleader, he doesn't think that all this still exists on the internet?
jordan holmes
Well, as we've established, he has no concept of the past.
dan friesen
Well, the idea that, like, all that, like, stuff...
jordan holmes
Like, every time we've gone through...
Alex Jones says this now in defense of, we go back and we have a clip of him saying, and this is the same thing with fucking Trump!
Everything Trump has ever said, we have a tweet of him saying the opposite.
Or our new friend Scaramucci.
They just don't even fucking care.
They don't care.
They don't care!
Nobody is actually holding them accountable, which is the big issue.
We can go on Twitter and we can see people going like, here's what they said, here's what they used to say, but nobody's actually fucking doing anything.
dan friesen
We're trying.
jordan holmes
And I don't know what to do.
dan friesen
We're trying.
jordan holmes
I wake up every day and I don't know what to do.
Dad, tell me what to do.
dan friesen
I can't tell you, but we're trying.
We got a couple more clips to get through.
Let's do this thing.
jordan holmes
We're on hour 17. Yeah, we're trying to do a fundraiser.
We're just bad at it.
dan friesen
So, I made a point of the fact that Alex has been very pro-Russia.
Yes.
As we've seen.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
Or at the very least, pro-strongman, pro-Putin.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Not necessarily pro-Russia.
dan friesen
No, no, that's not fair.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Pro-Russia and pro-Assad.
He has been.
jordan holmes
He has been pro-Assad.
dan friesen
Before this episode, he's been pro-strongman.
The things he said in this episode have been legitimately pro-Russia, pro-Assad.
jordan holmes
You're right.
I agree.
dan friesen
This next clip brings it...
Brings it home.
alex jones
They don't like saying we're fighting ISIS when they've got resupply, C-130s landing, delivering them weapons on the hour.
In battle with Russian commandos who are on the right side.
You think America, the actual military, likes being clearly on the bad side with Al-Qaeda, launching wars, and then back home, we gotta take your rights away because of Al-Qaeda.
Do you think anybody in the government likes being part of that?
dan friesen
So Alex Jones in that clip essentially is saying that we are on the wrong side of everything.
Russia is on the right side of everything.
jordan holmes
But how?
What is his justification for it?
dan friesen
We have funded and created al-Qaeda and ISIS in order to destabilize Syria.
And because of that...
We are on the wrong side of everything.
Russia and Assad are really just trying to destroy the forces that we have brought in there for destabilization.
And, you know, that makes sense.
jordan holmes
I just don't get that very simplistic argument.
dan friesen
Because it's dumb?
jordan holmes
In the same way that there's a kernel of truth to it that is also such a willful misunderstanding.
Misunderstanding of the way that the world works, it's hard to imagine.
dan friesen
Totally.
So, Alex Jones is in favor of Russia and Assad.
Great.
Cool.
jordan holmes
But what's the motivation for him being in favor of Assad at this point?
dan friesen
We already talked about it.
We already talked about it.
He's in favor of all of these Russian propaganda outlets.
He's beholden to RT and Sputnik as information sources.
jordan holmes
I mean, yeah, you make the good point of him as information sources, but...
dan friesen
They put out stories about...
unidentified
If you do even...
dan friesen
No, because the things that you will say about Assad being oppressive to his people...
jordan holmes
Murdering!
Not being oppressive!
dan friesen
Murdering!
Right.
All that stuff.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Gassing.
jordan holmes
I like how you yada yada.
All that stuff.
dan friesen
No, no, no.
That's what I was going to get to as my sentence went along.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
I know.
I just had to...
dan friesen
The Russian version of it that comes out in Sputnik and RT is that it is Western-backed rebel forces that are faking these attacks.
jordan holmes
I didn't know that.
dan friesen
Yeah, that is the narrative.
jordan holmes
That's their narrative?
unidentified
Yes.
jordan holmes
For real?
unidentified
Yes!
dan friesen
And that's the narrative that Alex buys.
And that's why we've talked about this on the show a bunch of times.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex has these people on who are...
Disreputable sources, like Larry C. Johnson.
I can't remember that ambassador guy who he had on, who had clear financial interests.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
Well, if you're Russian and you are on media of any sort, you probably have ties to the oligarchy.
dan friesen
With a couple exceptions, yes.
Absolutely.
So that is the narrative that Alex is on board with.
Seems dumb, seems wild, but that's what he pushes.
Every single thing...
jordan holmes
It's the Assad thing, though, that...
Like, I get arguing other Russian things, but Assad has so very clearly...
Set out to murder his own people.
dan friesen
Well, here's where...
jordan holmes
It seems like such a...
It seems like a Hitler thing all over again.
Like, are you for Hitler murdering Jews or against?
That's what Assad is to me.
dan friesen
Well, here's where Alex gets his leeway.
Is that Obama said the red line is using gas attacks on your people.
jordan holmes
And then he didn't do shit.
Which he thinks...
Which Obama has clearly stated is...
One of his more proud moments of not sending the world into World War III.
dan friesen
Agreed.
But Alex's and all of Russian media's argument about that is, why the fuck would Assad do that if Obama said that that was a red line?
Why would they do that?
jordan holmes
Okay.
Which is compelling.
That's an interesting angle, yeah.
I agree.
dan friesen
It's compelling to a ton of people if you don't think...
Obama might have been bluffing.
jordan holmes
Okay, so...
dan friesen
Because the end result legitimately is World War III.
jordan holmes
So what...
dan friesen
Like, if we went in, if Obama saw gassing of the people...
jordan holmes
Yeah, so he makes his red line.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And if Obama knows that it happens, and he doesn't get in there and fucking burn the shit to the ground, then it must be that he also knows it's a false flag.
dan friesen
Right.
Well, and also, before that, Putin had made very clear that he was not going to accept any of our aggression in Syria.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
So, like, it is a much more complicated chess game than Alex has presented.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
All of it is just to serve this Russian propaganda message.
I'm not saying that he's an agent of Russia.
That's not...
jordan holmes
No, but that's...
dan friesen
He's just dumb.
jordan holmes
He falls...
unidentified
That's not the...
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
That's not the narrative.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Why would you even need him to be an agent of Russia if you have this kind of weird...
It's such a...
It's such a...
Man, foreign policy is tough.
I don't know...
dan friesen
It's very complicated.
jordan holmes
Dan, I don't know if you know this or not, but global foreign policy?
Very complicated.
dan friesen
I'm a wonk.
Anyway.
jordan holmes
Very complicated.
dan friesen
So, all that aside, I want to be entirely clear.
We've made a lot of mistakes in terms of arming rebels and stuff like that throughout the entirety of our history as a country.
jordan holmes
America?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Disagree.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
You know me, I'm pro-nationalism.
dan friesen
That said, Putin, Assad are not good guys.
And what they're doing in Syria?
Not good.
jordan holmes
Assad should be lit on fire.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Now.
Right now.
If you are a knowledge fighter and you are within, let's say, three feet of Assad and you can light him on fire, please light him on fire.
dan friesen
Just make him hot for a little bit.
jordan holmes
Just burn him to death.
dan friesen
No, if you've got like a...
jordan holmes
If he survives, you're lighting him on fire.
Lighting him on fire ten more times.
dan friesen
And then meme it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, like the anti-CNN memes you.
dan friesen
Actually, Alex just paid out $20,000.
jordan holmes
Alright, kill us all.
dan friesen
Just paid out $20,000.
jordan holmes
Just fucking, I'm done.
dan friesen
What a shock.
jordan holmes
I'm done.
dan friesen
What a shock.
You know who won?
jordan holmes
Who won?
dan friesen
Some guy that Alex Jones offered a job to.
jordan holmes
Jesus, no.
dan friesen
I texted you about this.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
It was that guy?
dan friesen
Well, there were two guys.
unidentified
Fuck off.
dan friesen
Two guys.
Yeah.
Alex Jones offered a job to the first and second place guys.
But here was the fucking awesome, like, I wish, I'm so, I'm an idiot because I don't have the clip of this.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But it's so fucking hilarious.
He's sitting there and he's like, alright, I told Paul Joseph Watson he got to pick the winner and I don't think this is the winner.
I think the winner is the Braveheart one.
That guy's great.
You got a job.
Just hit me up.
You got a job.
Please.
jordan holmes
I want to work with you.
unidentified
You got a job.
dan friesen
A guy did a Braveheart version of, you know, it's just Braveheart, but Trump is William Wallace.
And he's like, you got a job.
No, look, I told Paul Joseph Austin he could choose the winner.
You get the $20,000.
It's honor bound.
jordan holmes
What did Rapoport have to do to get a job?
unidentified
He just cucked out the winner of the fucking contest that he started.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
So the winner was...
Okay.
Of course it's a movie.
I'm going to give you three guesses.
I'm going to give you three guesses.
And now consider the mythology...
jordan holmes
Gladiator.
dan friesen
That's your first?
jordan holmes
Gladiator.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
That's also my second.
Gladiator again.
dan friesen
Consider the mythology of Infowars.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
How he talks about false realities.
jordan holmes
Oh, The Patriot.
dan friesen
No.
You got one more.
This should be obvious.
jordan holmes
All other Mel Gibson movies.
dan friesen
No, but it should be obvious.
Come on.
You got this.
jordan holmes
InfoWars.
A Scanner Darkly?
Like, I don't know.
unidentified
That's closer.
dan friesen
Matrix.
jordan holmes
Oh, come on!
No, you can't even...
That was made by trans women!
dan friesen
Yeah, I know.
jordan holmes
You don't get to steal that!
dan friesen
Oh, they did.
jordan holmes
You don't get to!
dan friesen
It's that scene where Agent Smiths are shooting at Neo down a hallway.
He stops the bullets.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And all the bullets are fake news.
larry nichols
Oh, fuck off.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's not that.
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
But he paid $20,000 and has offered both of them jobs.
jordan holmes
Have we considered doing one of those?
No.
I bet we could come up with a better idea.
dan friesen
We can't play Meme Warfare.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
That's nonsense.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
That is a fickle fly-by-night piece of bullshit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Anyway, we gotta get these last two clips out.
jordan holmes
We've got two?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
We're on hour seven and a half.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
The debate.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Alex mentioned this a little bit earlier, that Trump said some good things in the debate.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Now, one of them was that people speak English here, not Spanish.
jordan holmes
I didn't like that.
I didn't like that.
dan friesen
But said some other things that Alex did like.
And they're not good.
alex jones
But I gotta say, as a litmus test, Donald Trump coming out against vaccines and saying I got a lot of friends and family who's got brain-damaged kids from this shows that he really cares about people.
unidentified
No!
alex jones
And he knows the system's going to come after him, and he understands what's going on, and when the rubber meets the road, he doesn't want to be involved in brain damaging tens of millions of children.
jordan holmes
Which is why he's removing healthcare.
alex jones
It is a fact that vaccines are linked to increased cancer, neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders.
It says it on the stinking inserts, and Ben Carson, a medical doctor, a brain surgeon, not an epidemiologist, not a virologist, He just sits there and says it's wonderful because he's a good guy as a doctor, so he believes everything they're doing must be wonderful.
dan friesen
I like you making fun of his doctorate when you're also not a doctor.
But in the debate, Trump talked about how when he had kids...
He spaced out the vaccines.
jordan holmes
That's the argument that I've heard a bunch recently.
unidentified
If they get that full vaccine, it's a horse tranquilizer.
dan friesen
It's a big, huge horse needle, which isn't true at all.
No.
I don't want to put too fine a point on this, and we're already four hours into this podcast, but I have looked into all of it and all of the anti-vax stuff.
jordan holmes
It's bullshit.
It's all bullshit.
It's absolute nonsense.
dan friesen
Andrew Wakefield.
jordan holmes
It's been bullshit since the 1890s.
Since vaccines were created, one guy got a fucking thing happen to him within two weeks of a vaccine, and he was like, well, it's vaccines.
It is always bullshit.
It is always fucking bullshit.
I can't begin.
I can't begin.
To deal with how much I hate you if you're an anti-vaccine.
dan friesen
Well, all of it is sussed out legitimately by one sentence.
That is one of the most important sentences in terms of statistics.
And that is that correlation does not imply causation.
If there is something that there is a slight relation to, you can't say just because there's a relation that X caused Y. Yeah.
Like, you can't.
jordan holmes
Correlation does not equal causation is the bane of our existence.
The fact that it is true and the fact that it is almost impossible for most people to recognize is the most destructive force in my lifetime.
dan friesen
One of the biggest cases about this, and Alex Jones talks about, you know, like in the UB, the guy who did studies about vaccines.
jordan holmes
It was the Dred Scott case, right?
dan friesen
No.
unidentified
It was this guy named Andrew Wakefield, and he did some studies that were called into question, and he got fired because it turned out he was taking...
dan friesen
A ton of money from lawyers.
jordan holmes
Discredited and his license was revoked.
dan friesen
There were lawyers who were trying to get a class action lawsuit going on behalf of people who hated vaccines.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he got like $400,000 from those lawyers.
And so all of his studies, people who signed on to his studies in the past not knowing that monetary payment.
Who were involved, they were like, oh shit.
jordan holmes
Wait, hold on a second.
Are you saying that when you get money involved with healthcare, bad things happen?
dan friesen
Especially with studies.
jordan holmes
Nah.
dan friesen
Can't believe it.
Especially when conclusions are...
jordan holmes
Capitalism!
Free market!
dan friesen
Free market, baby.
jordan holmes
Guns!
dan friesen
Prosperity.
Prosperity.
Anyway, Alex is pretty thrilled with that anti-vax message.
But I honestly think, if I can be totally clear, I think that no matter what happened in that debate, Alex would find something to love.
jordan holmes
About Trump?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
You think so?
dan friesen
Yeah.
I think it's in his timeline.
jordan holmes
So you think this is the money situation again?
dan friesen
I do.
jordan holmes
So he fixated on one thing that Trump said.
Like, now I kind of want to go back.
dan friesen
Can I tell you why?
jordan holmes
I would rather die, but I kind of want to go back and watch that debate to see how many things Trump said that he would have disagreed with versus how many he did agree with.
dan friesen
I have no idea, but I did go back and look into Trump's anti-vax history.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he got in some fucking hot water like three months before this.
For anti-vax stuff.
And he has an anti-vax history that goes back to like 2005.
jordan holmes
Oh, so it's a full-on birther kind of situation where it's been there from the beginning.
dan friesen
This isn't news.
This is just he said it at a debate.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And so Alex Jones' position is like, he's going to be attacked for this.
But he had been attacked for it already.
He's pretending that this is some sort of like...
New wrinkle in his character, which it's not.
I honestly think...
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, in the context of his campaign, has this been a thing?
No, I don't think this has been.
dan friesen
He's been too busy complaining about immigrants, though.
jordan holmes
Well, and in the same way that in his campaign, it hasn't been all about birtherism, you know?
It hasn't been all about...
dan friesen
Hey, he didn't start that.
jordan holmes
He stopped it.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I think...
I think that there's a little bit of manipulation going on.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
A little bit.
And if Alex Jones...
jordan holmes
At the very least.
dan friesen
In terms of our show, this is...
Maybe four episodes back.
But Alex Jones, when he made his pivot to stop talking shit about Trump in terms of his mob ties, he said, I went back and I did deep research on him.
I went and watched all his speeches.
And if he had done that, he would already know that he has a history of being an anti-vaccination guy.
He hasn't been not that for years.
So this shouldn't be news to him.
unidentified
Such a luxury for rich people to be anti-vax.
jordan holmes
Such a luxury.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, my kids go to all schools where everybody has been vaccinated, so I don't have to worry about it.
dan friesen
And they're not pregnant.
Also, this version of anti-vax, where it's like, I spaced it out over six years.
jordan holmes
Fucking fuck you.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's not great either.
alex jones
Fuck you.
jordan holmes
I've established it, I think, pretty consistently.
But if you're anti-vax, I hope you kill yourself and then kill your children.
dan friesen
That seems hard.
jordan holmes
No, that's a good order for that.
dan friesen
Alright, well, we all know that our descendants are still with us.
We got one more clip, and this is Alex talking more about Trump's anti-vax position.
alex jones
What I know.
About what he's going to be going through now for saying that.
And looking at the look in his eye, I guarantee you Donald Trump doesn't like seeing his friends have brain-damaged kids all around him.
It's a large portion of people have giggling, happy 18-month-old baby boys.
Their blood-brain barrier is not strong as a girl's.
They go in to get that last round of shots.
Billy don't ever talk again.
That's why a lot of members of Congress are against vaccines.
Because, you know, you or your kid or your grandchildren take a shot and never talk again, that'll wake some people up.
So I got to say it.
Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, they are the three presidential contenders, in my view, from a position of liberty.
dan friesen
Now we have come to our own new place.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we've narrowed it down.
dan friesen
And that's fucked up.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because he loves Rand Paul.
He will, very soon, humiliate Ted Cruz.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he will become the biggest blowjob machine for Donald Trump.
jordan holmes
Which is funny.
That is the one true joy I took out of that campaign, is Ted Cruz turning into a little bitch.
dan friesen
Jesus.
This is...
Like, I don't know how to say it.
I was right.
jordan holmes
So what you're saying is that we began this episode with Dan being right, and we ended it with Dan being right.
dan friesen
I think I'm right, but not the way I expected.
I predicted earlier that when Alex makes his pivot to Trump, it will be superficial.
It'll be about some issue that...
He already...
It's not like...
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
It's not new.
jordan holmes
It's not new.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And that is what he has sort of done.
Now, he's not the cheerleader yet.
He's still just saying these three guys are liberty candidates.
jordan holmes
He's narrowed it down.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Which is...
jordan holmes
Already fucked up enough as it is.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, the candidate...
I don't understand how it is that he...
Professes to be libertarian and theoretically nonpartisan.
And yet at the same time, every enemy is leftist.
Every fear comes from inclusion.
Every fear comes from any kind of like...
We should all be part of the same world, which is also his professed ideology in that the globalists are trying to keep us from becoming an inclusive society.
dan friesen
He wants the inclusion, but he knows that it's a globalist plot.
He's talked about Sanders a couple times already, and he's been like, this fucking ding-dong, this asshole.
jordan holmes
Which, to me, it seems like he would wind up coming down between Sanders and Rand Paul.
dan friesen
That's what Jesse Ventura does.
jordan holmes
Exactly, exactly.
dan friesen
Because Jesse Ventura is pure.
jordan holmes
Ventura is like, hey, Sanders or Rand Paul.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's what Ventura is.
dan friesen
Jesse Ventura has a philosophy.
jordan holmes
He has an ideological consistency, and Alex doesn't believe...
Really?
In anything?
dan friesen
I honestly think what we're coming to, and what I've learned from listening to these past three weeks or two weeks that we've covered, is he is a harsh, opportunistic asshole.
He wants his money.
jordan holmes
He wants his money.
dan friesen
And I think...
He realized when Joe...
jordan holmes
That's actually going to be the...
When we write the screenplay for our documentary, it will be the tagline is, Alex Jones, he wants his money.
dan friesen
Well, we predicted earlier that it would be a thing where it's like he's trying to get the Mercers or Trump to try and come in as big money donors.
And that may still be the case.
But I think he started this million dollar campaign.
It's not happening.
In the meantime, we've recognized Joe Pigs went out there and everyone wanted that shirt.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That is a market we can fucking tap into.
How do we rationalize this?
We rationalize it.
There was a debate last night.
He said something anti-vaccination that he's said a hundred times already.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Now it's like, fuck.
We soft kill babies.
He's against that.
All right.
unidentified
I'm in.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
That's so disappointing.
I want it to be some kind of nefarious thing.
unidentified
It's still nefarious.
jordan holmes
It's still pretty nefarious.
That's a good point.
It needs, to me, in order for us to...
unidentified
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I guess it's more like I feel like we need a scoop.
Right.
Like, I feel like we need some kind of angle that nobody's ever touched before.
But if it just winds up being weird, shitty opportunism, it bums me out, right?
Like, shouldn't there be some sort of Mercer money?
Shouldn't there be some sort of, like, third-party donor who's like, all right, now I direct things.
It used to be the gold guy.
But now it's me.
dan friesen
Well, Ted Anderson is involved to this day, so he hasn't gone.
jordan holmes
I mean, gold guys are always going to be around.
dan friesen
But I would say that you should take solace in knowing that no one has done as much listening to his show as we have.
jordan holmes
I don't take solace in that at all.
dan friesen
But we do have a scoop, whatever the case is.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
Even if it isn't.
That the Mercers are the ones who did it.
Or Trump money.
There's still a scoop here.
Because he didn't fucking care about Trump two days before.
And now he's a fucking contender.
jordan holmes
Right back on an anti-vaxxer situation.
dan friesen
He's all over the place.
And when he becomes the 1776 2.0 guy, it's not...
It's not because of things Trump said five years ago.
jordan holmes
Well, that's the thing that gets me, is that it seems like right now he's going off of things Trump says.
Like, he's going off of things that Trump...
Like, Trump says something I like, so I say nice things about him.
Trump says something I don't like, so I don't say nice things about him.
Trump says something I like.
Like, that's the problem that I have.
It should be something that is at least consistent.
And until we get to that consistent point...
It just seems like he's full of shit.
dan friesen
Yeah, you're a dum-dum.
There's never going to be...
unidentified
Fair.
dan friesen
Fair.
jordan holmes
No, that's fair.
dan friesen
There's never going to be a point when Alex Jones is consistent.
jordan holmes
Fair.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's a crazy person.
jordan holmes
I don't know why, but I still...
dan friesen
He has brain damage.
jordan holmes
I still live in this world of, like...
dan friesen
He did mess.
jordan holmes
I still live in the world of...
I believe people believe in things, and Alex doesn't.
And that's why you're right about that fucking meme, is that the consistent argument is always people believe shit, and Alex doesn't have a belief system.
Alex has elves, and then we move on.
dan friesen
He's rogue.
He's completely rogue.
jordan holmes
As are all of those fucking alt-right guys.
dan friesen
It doesn't matter to them.
They move on.
In the same way that in that story that Tom Arnold told, they got to get a bunch of publicity out of calling Tom Arnold a pussy and then canceling the fight.
And no one on their side knows that they canceled the fight.
It just didn't happen.
They can say he backed out.
unidentified
He was involved with the coordination of it.
dan friesen
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Perception is king.
All of it's bullshit.
Everything is bullshit.
Anyway, we'll be back with the next stage of this investigation and other shit.
I don't want to talk about the present much, but...
jordan holmes
Unless the present turns out to be very interesting, which so far to this circumstance, it is...
Been very depressing.
dan friesen
Well, it's just like he doesn't talk about the actual things that are happening in the administration.
jordan holmes
No, it's been boring.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's just like, oh, Scaramucci's in.
Hey, that's because Sean Spicer was a deep state agent.
jordan holmes
It would be really interesting, though, if he did get into, like, if he did have sources, like Donald Trump Jr., who would get him inside information on how the dynamics of the administration was working.
dan friesen
Which, by the way, this week, Bananas.
This week, as this episode comes out, Junior may have to show up in front of the Senate.
jordan holmes
As will DT himself.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So we'll see.
I mean, they're probably going...
unidentified
They won't.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
No.
They're going to be pardoned.
You get it?
Yeah.
But, hey, if you don't want to be pardoned, you should go to our website.
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
Wait, no, no, no.
Nope, I refuse that transition.
Reject.
dan friesen
Nope, that was me.
jordan holmes
Reject entirely.
dan friesen
That was me slightly buzzed.
I pivoted on a word.
jordan holmes
Reject entirely.
dan friesen
If you want to reject something on a word, go to our website.
Our website is knowledgefight.com.
Check it out.
jordan holmes
There's a lot of good stuff on there.
You can click on a button that says support the show.
And let me tell you something.
So many people have started supporting the show that it's...
dan friesen
We've got a lot of wonks.
jordan holmes
It's kind of mind-boggling how many of you have become policy wonks.
dan friesen
Thank you all so much.
jordan holmes
How important it is to us on so many levels.
dan friesen
And if you are not a policy wonk and you would like to be, click on that button and you will be...
jordan holmes
Kill Jeff Sessions.
Wait, no, wait.
What?
dan friesen
Hold off on that.
jordan holmes
Did we not agree on that?
dan friesen
You are not on brand.
jordan holmes
Okay.
unidentified
All right.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
dan friesen
But if you click on that button, you will be granted access to, right now, it's 10 episodes of That's What They Want You to Think, me and Marty DeRosa's Conspiracy Theory Podcast.
A little bonus for your ass.
jordan holmes
Marty, friend of the show and very, very funny comedian.
dan friesen
And there are other episodes that will be added eventually once I find them in my R drive.
I haven't And we're on Facebook!
jordan holmes
All right.
This is the evidence that we've been drinking wine this entire episode.
dan friesen
I did that last episode.
You don't even remember it.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
That's because we've been drinking wine this entire episode.
dan friesen
Please give us a rating on Facebook.
Like us.
It's helpful.
jordan holmes
Go to iTunes.
Give us a rating.
Make sure people know us.
There's something about their algorithm where if you give us some stars, they'll be like, yeah, fucking find them.
Indeed.
dan friesen
Beyond that, I'd like to apologize.
This episode has been this long.
Jesus Christ.
jordan holmes
How long has it been?
dan friesen
We are at four hours.
This is the longest episode so far.
jordan holmes
Not true.
dan friesen
Jesus Christ.
Yes, it is.
unidentified
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
We've not breached four hours.
jordan holmes
We've not breached four?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Dude.
dan friesen
Joe Rogan was the closest, I think.
jordan holmes
You called it 315, and I was like, nah, this ain't happening.
It's coming to four.
dan friesen
I think if you had not disrupted me so many times.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
Don't.
unidentified
Don't pretend this wasn't on purpose.
jordan holmes
I was going to make this episode four hours no matter what happened.
dan friesen
Look, it's the wine, it's the good times, and it's the truth, guys.
jordan holmes
Policy wonks.
We love you all very much.
I'll tell you there's somebody we don't love.
God damn it!
tom arnold
Damn it!
Dan!
You are ruining this!
dan friesen
I was trying to help.
I was trying to help, you asshole.
You asshole!
I was trying to help.
I was trying to be like, oh shit, there's an inroad to get to John Rappaport.
jordan holmes
Do you know who doesn't help us?
dan friesen
This one guy.
jordan holmes
What one guy?
unidentified
This one guy.
dan friesen
Who is he?
unidentified
Fuck.
dan friesen
I ran into the...
jordan holmes
Is he young or is he old?
dan friesen
He's really old.
jordan holmes
He's really old?
dan friesen
I was at this fucking anti-AIDS conference.
I was at this conference.
jordan holmes
I'm already out.
I'm already out.
dan friesen
I hung out with him.
He was really cool.
We did shots of JMO.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It was super cool.
jordan holmes
What about him?
dan friesen
But at the end of the night, I've got to be honest, I skipped out on his tab.
jordan holmes
This is the best the bit has gone so far.
dan friesen
I skipped out on his tab.
At the end of the night, I'm like, he said he was going to the bathroom.
I was like, I'll stick around here.
jordan holmes
What did you say about this guy?
alex jones
I said, fuck you, John Rapoport!
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
unidentified
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
I love your work.
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