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July 31, 2017 - Knowledge Fight
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#68: September 19-28, 2015

Today, Dan tells Jordan about the 12th installment into what happened in 2015 to convince Alex Jones to join up with the Trump presidential campaign. Topics covered include: How much does Alex hate Pope Francis? How much does Alex actually know about Pope Francis? Did Plato say that Mars had a connection with Atlantis? Does Alex invite his personal trainer onto the show as a guest?

Participants
Main voices
a
alex jones
34:47
d
dan friesen
01:35:38
j
jordan holmes
42:06
Appearances
j
jesse ventura
04:06
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leo zagami
00:33
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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, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alexander Emmerich Jones.
jordan holmes
Indeed.
There is, however, a twist that makes it an interesting thing to listen to, right?
dan friesen
That is true.
jordan holmes
I mean, otherwise it would just be two assholes talking about lunatics.
dan friesen
Let's not fuck around in the intro.
We've got a lot to get through today.
jordan holmes
Okay, fine, fine, fine.
dan friesen
I know a lot about Alex Jones.
You don't know anything about him.
jordan holmes
I don't know anything about Alex Jones.
Let me ask you a question.
What drink did you...
What do you bring for us right now?
dan friesen
It's so hot in the shy out there, you know?
In Chicago, in Chi-town, in the city of Broad Shoulders.
jordan holmes
Now you're taking your time!
God damn it!
dan friesen
The second city.
jordan holmes
You hypocrite!
dan friesen
It's so hot out, I thought we just needed something nice and crisp and refreshing.
So I got us Ice Mountain Sparkling Raspberry Lime.
It's still a novelty beverage.
jordan holmes
It's just not weird.
It's like homeopathic flavoring.
Like there's one part per billion of actual...
Fruit flavoring.
dan friesen
Maybe.
And last year was...
It was the year of the fizzy beverage, the fizzy water for me.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
And these Ice Mountain...
jordan holmes
The LaCroix's?
dan friesen
Sure, that's a little pedestrian, but there's a...
jordan holmes
You're an elitist for sparkling flavored water.
unidentified
It's bougie.
dan friesen
You know, everyone's...
Gotcha.
There's all these trendy assholes out there, and I sound like Alex.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was gonna say, you're getting in there.
dan friesen
The line of Ice Mountain sparkling waters are really good.
They have a nice orange, they have a black cherry.
I think the raspberry lime is my favorite of them.
Anyway.
Jordan?
jordan holmes
That's some solid buzz marketing you just did.
dan friesen
Some of my other favorite things are our new donators.
I'd like to give a shout-out to our new donator.
What's up out there, Stephanie?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Welcome aboard the team.
jordan holmes
Hi, Stephanie!
Good to see ya.
I can't actually see you.
dan friesen
No, you're blind.
jordan holmes
No, I'm basically blind.
dan friesen
I'd like to give a shout-out to our other new donator.
What's up out there, Ian?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
Congratulations, you are both now policy wonks.
jordan holmes
Welcome aboard, Ian.
dan friesen
And if you'd like to be a policy wonk yourself, please go to our website, knowledgefight.com, and click the support the show button, and you will become a policy wonk.
That's great.
jordan holmes
That's an excellent thing to be.
It has changed a lot of lives so far.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
You've become so much more interesting at cocktail parties.
Oh, of course.
I know that this is my big selling point.
jordan holmes
No, well, what I was going to say is that it's cured cancer three or four times at least.
dan friesen
Oh, totally.
jordan holmes
Is that legal for us to say?
dan friesen
It's as legal as any of Alex Jones's commercials.
alex jones
Good point.
jordan holmes
I don't think the FDA regulates podcasts.
dan friesen
Or policy wonkery.
So, Jordan, today we're going to be doing an investigation deep into the past of 2015.
jordan holmes
Excellent.
dan friesen
This is the 12th installment of the What the Fuck Happened to Alex Jones to get him to like Donald Trump investigation.
jordan holmes
Which is like five more than we ever would have expected from this.
dan friesen
This is going to be so quick.
Oh, God, it's so bizarre.
Today's investigation will be covering the period of September 19th, 2015 up until September 28th.
And the reason I have this discrete period is a narrative evolves over this period of time and we'll discuss exactly what it is.
Fuck it.
I'll just tell you.
jordan holmes
We're going to cut this one short, then.
You got somewhere to be?
dan friesen
This will lead to two out-of-context drops that I will play immediately after this.
The reason that this chunk of time I've separated out into this phase of the investigation, it's not because Alex Jones changes his mind about Trump.
Spoiler alert, he still doesn't endorse him at the end of this.
alex jones
How?
dan friesen
But the Pope comes to America.
jordan holmes
Excellent.
dan friesen
So this almost entire week...
jordan holmes
While he's in the Popemobile, he's having a gay orgy, right?
unidentified
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
According to Alex Jones, that's exactly what's happening.
dan friesen
At the very least, he's actively covering one up.
So, the Pope comes to America, and Alex Jones dispatches Jakari Jackson and David Knight, and they just, like they're following the Grateful Dead, they follow the Pope around the country.
jordan holmes
That's fantastic.
dan friesen
Giving weird field reports about how globalism is on the march, and they're only bringing the Pope in because they're making their move.
So I don't...
jordan holmes
They're on tour with the Pope arguing that he's killing everybody?
dan friesen
Yeah, basically.
They go to New York, Philadelphia, all the cities that the Pope makes stops in.
Jakari and David give little field reports from.
jordan holmes
This would be a great time.
If this was visual, we would have to put up one of those graphics where it's like the little plane hopping from city to city or a little tour bus.
dan friesen
Infowars only raised a million dollars in their money bomb.
They can't afford that graphic.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
That's true.
It's moving.
I've decided...
It's not worth our time to cover most of the stuff that Alex Jones says about the Pope because I can distill it down to these two out-of-context drops that basically sum up where Alex's head is with the Pope.
Here's the first one.
alex jones
I can't help it.
I had a headache.
I was upset until I called the Pope a devil worshiper.
and now I feel better.
unidentified
*laughter*
jordan holmes
So calling the Pope a devil worshiper is like a reverse Jesus.
dan friesen
It's like an esperm.
It relieves whatever ails you.
jordan holmes
Rather than a holy man laying hands upon you, you calling him a devil worshiper will heal your wounds.
dan friesen
I was feeling like shit, and then I called the Pope a devil worshiper.
I feel great now.
jordan holmes
That's fucking fantastic.
dan friesen
So here's the other one.
jordan holmes
Is that all we had to do this whole time?
dan friesen
Here's the other thing.
jordan holmes
I'd be a great healthcare bill.
dan friesen
Oh yeah, just say shit about the Pope.
jordan holmes
Just say shit about the Pope.
alex jones
I've just been desensitized and getting to meet a lot of celebrities and stuff.
It's really quite boring.
And my heart rate wouldn't even go up talking to the pub.
dan friesen
Yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool.
So, I mean, that's basically...
jordan holmes
You know, I've met a Kardashian.
I've met the Pope.
It's all the same.
dan friesen
They're spiritual leaders to someone.
jordan holmes
It's all the same shit.
dan friesen
So those two clips, I think, sum up a lot of his positions about the Pope.
I mean, besides calling him a rank globalist and pedophile and stuff like that, he calls him a devil worshiper.
And then the second clip he's expressing, I don't think it's all that important to meet him.
I wouldn't be impressed.
jordan holmes
I like how we're so far into Alex Jones' world that we're saying, you know, besides the regular, he's a globalist and a pedophile.
Don't worry about that.
That's lame.
That's lame.
He doesn't like him very much.
dan friesen
That's the lacroix of Alex Jones' arguments.
It's so pedestrian.
It doesn't even matter.
Hey, is it someone Alex doesn't like?
jordan holmes
Probably going to get called a pedophile.
Yeah, we're looking for the unique ones here.
dan friesen
In this, that's one of the sort of downfalls of this podcast, I realize, is that if people haven't listened back to a bunch of them, they're going to be like, why don't you care that he's saying these awful things?
No, we dealt with this months ago.
We're looking for outliers.
jordan holmes
We almost need Wikipedia sources cited on each one of our...
Here's why we're cool with just blowing by pedophiles.
dan friesen
Go back to episode three, minute 45. Honestly, I am trying to build that into the website.
unidentified
Yeah, I know.
dan friesen
Anyway, I'm going to go crazy.
But be that as it may, let's jump in.
jordan holmes
I love his...
Those two clips are such perfect Alex Jones shit.
Because it is...
He's a devil worshiper.
And also, you know, I don't even care.
I don't even care.
I'm spending hours talking about him on the show, but I don't even care about the Pope.
He's nothing to me.
I'm Alex Jones.
dan friesen
I've met celebrities.
jordan holmes
Like the obsession by...
dan friesen
I've been in major movies.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Bullshit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, on September 19th, it's a Sunday, and David Knight hosts the show.
unidentified
Yes.
dan friesen
Alex Jones is out.
September 20th, David Knight hosts again.
So we're already two days into our investigation period with nothing off our back.
September 21st rolls around, and I have made mention that Alex Jones, in the last weeks of our investigation, has been displaying many pro-Putin and pro-Russia opinions.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And this trend does not stop now.
alex jones
The Russians are building at least three airfields, one of them a forward airbase.
To deliver helicopters and air support with Marine forces as well as Russian Spetsnats or Special Forces.
And Spetsnats just means Special Forces, period, in Russian.
Both Marine and Army Special Forces.
This is an exclusive report in English language.
It is only in the Russian news as of now or at Infowars.com.
Interesting.
Top Story, Infowars.com.
Russian Marines battle ISIS in Syria.
ISIS militants attack Russian airbase, according to Russian media.
Russian Marines clash with ISIS in Syria on Sunday, according to Russian media.
During the fight, the Marines allegedly killed, and again, they're going to print the article off and bring it in here, and I'm going to be able to break all that down for you.
During the fight, the Marines allegedly killed several militants, that is migrants, No, but he's not.
dan friesen
He's not staying on target.
He's doing all these derivations into, like, these are migrants.
You know, this is a racist act.
I'm being sarcastic.
jordan holmes
I mean, within his capability.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
He was reading that from start to finish, and he had his little editorials thrown in there.
But that was solid reading.
dan friesen
It was okay.
jordan holmes
I would give him, if he was in my fifth grade lit class...
dan friesen
I would give him a B. I'd give him a satisfactory.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's a good one.
dan friesen
So, you might notice that he's saying this is an exclusive report, and it's from Russian media.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was gonna say.
dan friesen
You gotta be really careful when you're citing Russian media.
Because of their non-freedom of the press.
jordan holmes
Interesting.
dan friesen
Because Putin has a long history of jailing, killing, attacking journalists, you have to be very careful what you believe that comes out of Russian media.
Now, I looked into this and checked the sourcing on Alex Jones' article that was on Infowars.com.
jordan holmes
RT.
dan friesen
No, that would be too easy.
jordan holmes
That would be too easy.
dan friesen
It goes back to a newspaper, and I'm being very generous, it's a tabloid, called Sevadonia.
And this is a Ukrainian pro-Russian tabloid.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's not good.
dan friesen
No.
They're most notable for being in firm support of the prime ministerial candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, who was the head of Ukraine, who has deep ties to Paul Manafort.
jordan holmes
Who would have guessed?
dan friesen
Manafort was his campaign manager and got paid millions of dollars in order to install Yanukovych.
Into power in Ukraine.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Dude!
Don't we have, like, handcuffs or something?
Can we just handcuff these people?
Just, like...
dan friesen
Apparently not.
jordan holmes
I don't understand how there's not, like, clear, like, this is bad.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
I mean, I guess we don't have laws to protect against this because...
People just have this weird assumption that deep down humans are good.
Like, that's our failing.
dan friesen
That is a problem.
jordan holmes
The founding fathers were like, well, at least we know they'll love America.
Like, they completely forgot that people hate everybody.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, beyond that, beyond just this paper being a tabloid propaganda outlet in favor of pro-Russian interests in Ukraine.
Yeah.
Also, in 2011, the paper's journalists threatened to go on strike after chief editor Ihor Guzhava was controversially fired and his replacement censored certain types of stories and dictated to journalists how certain politicians and politicians were in the same place.
public figures should be covered.
Their journalists went on strike and that got resolved.
But even after that, they put in new editorial board members who insisted on favorable coverage for certain politicians.
And that is continued to this day.
That was from 2011.
Alex Jones is citing an article from four years after this.
Right.
unidentified
Sevedonia, has been criticized for their favorable positions towards certain candidates, and the newspaper has been accused of publishing forged documents.
Thank God that only happens over there.
Thank God that's only over there in that part of the world.
jordan holmes
Thank God.
dan friesen
Those people are silly.
jordan holmes
Those backwards-ass Russians.
dan friesen
So Alex Jones is citing a story that's pro-Putin, positive Russia coverage that is being put out by a...
Ukrainian pro-Russia propaganda tabloid.
That's a problem.
That's a massive problem.
And it informs so much of his stances that he's starting to take.
He's starting to lean pretty hard into a pro-Putin mindset.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Which is bizarre because it's happening even before he gets on board with Trump.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So all of this stuff that's happening in 2017 where he's like, there is no Russian collusion.
This is all bullshit.
It starts to become possibly a thing where he has even more hypothetical allegiance to Putin than he does to Trump.
I'm not saying that that's absolutely the case, but I'm saying it's starting to look a little bit like that, inasmuch as he believes that Putin is ultimately the one who's trying to take on the globalists.
jordan holmes
I see that.
I think if I was going to venture a where-does-his-loyalty-lie candidate, I would say they're the Infowars of Ukraine.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
So that's kind of like, he's more like, likes, like.
That kind of a thing.
As opposed to, I don't think he actually believes anything about Putin other than Putin is a great man.
Like, if you ascribe to the great man theory of history, you're like, well, Putin's great.
Like, undeniably, he's a big dude.
dan friesen
I think that you are making a decent point.
But I want you to put a pin in it until the end of this episode.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And even this next clip.
jordan holmes
You always make arguments with more information than I do.
I know, it's unfair.
And then I'm fulfilling my role and you're like, listen up, big dummy.
Wait until the end.
dan friesen
That's kind of the show.
I know a lot and you don't know anything.
jordan holmes
That's a good point.
dan friesen
So listen to this next clip and see what you think.
alex jones
They're now openly announcing the plan to break Syria into three parts as well.
And Russia understands this is about taking their only warm water port there on the Mediterranean in Syria.
They understand it's part of the march towards bringing down Russia.
And again, I'm not saying Russia is perfect.
I'm not saying Russia is wonderful.
But Russia is not on an offensive.
Russia is not putting cancer viruses on our vaccines.
Russia is not opening our borders.
Russia is not funding ISIS.
Russia is not pushing world government.
Russia is not trying to take my guns.
Russia isn't on the news saying my kids belong to the state.
Our criminal, illegitimate government is.
dan friesen
So essentially there what he's saying is that because our government has been taken over by these globalists that are doing all of these things he lists off, which they aren't doing, they're the bad guys and Putin is the good guy.
Putin and Assad are the good guys in Syria.
And that's something he's basically said.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's such a weird...
Well, whenever he praised Assad, that was a bananas situation there, too.
And Russia is hugely pro-Assad.
They're the main reason Assad is still around.
dan friesen
Yeah, 100%.
jordan holmes
So I think he's couching that in this language of, we shouldn't be worried about foreign interests.
That kind of a thing.
Don't you think?
Like, what he's saying there is...
Russia is this guy, and I know they're not perfect and all that stuff, but don't worry about them.
Worry about our illegitimate government doing all of this shit to us.
That's kind of the angle I think he's either hiding behind or actually trying to express.
dan friesen
It's probably more the prior than the latter, because I think he is hoping that...
I mean, he's masquerading it as, you know, all Assad is doing is trying to stand up to these rebels.
Yeah.
unidentified
These ISIS rebels that are trying to take him down.
dan friesen
Right.
unidentified
And that's all Putin's doing, too.
dan friesen
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
especially out of the portions of the country that are most important to him.
And that's why refugees have been able to get out in as high numbers as they have is because Assad is totally quarantined.
He's trying to get them out.
It's not as much ethnic cleansing on a murderous level, although there is some of that.
It's ethnic cleansing of his neighborhood, basically.
And Putin is totally cool with that, too.
Because you get them out, it causes massive destabilization all over the place.
So the idea that all they're doing is trying to protect their own position is lunacy.
And that's what Alex Jones believes in order to make it so they are the good guys and we are the bad guys.
jordan holmes
The thing that is very frustrating about that is that he is...
Well, and they're all on the same narrative of it's ISIS or Assad.
Right.
unidentified
When in reality, there is that third group who is trying to both fight off ISIS and Assad because Assad is murdering them and ISIS is murdering them.
jordan holmes
Yes.
unidentified
And the PR campaign through Assad, Putin and now Alex is the rebels are part of ISIS.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
unidentified
So that means that the legitimacy is only within Assad's government, even though he's murdering everybody he knows.
dan friesen
And unfortunately, as time goes on, and as...
They don't get helped, and the world seems to indicate that they don't care all that much.
You do see some of these people who would be on the good side of things being driven to ISIS.
jordan holmes
They gotta go somewhere.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
In terms of radicalization, they're likely not going to side with Assad.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
And in the end, the only other alternative to their minds is...
jordan holmes
If you push out the rebels, or you put a narrative in that the rebels are bad, you're gonna wind up fucking everybody over.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
That's the trick.
dan friesen
And that is what we've seen since 2015.
Yeah.
When Alex Jones is spitting this bullshit narrative.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So let's jump off this train because we got something kind of fun.
On this, the September 21st episode, Alex Jones has a little interview with our dear friend, who we have reservations about but still like quite a bit, Jesse Ventura.
jordan holmes
Hey!
dan friesen
Jesse Ventura comes on and Alex Jones accidentally engages him in an argument about whether or not atheism Is cool.
He accidentally engages him on an argument about church taxation.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
dan friesen
It's all under the auspices of the idea that...
jordan holmes
I agree churches should be taxed.
Highly.
unidentified
I think it's a good idea for everyone to pay their fair share.
dan friesen
That's pretty close to his position.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I believe...
Well, I kind of instantly knew that.
If Alex is frustrated arguing with him, that means they're going to get taxed.
dan friesen
Alex loses every single point in their argument, and it's great.
But it's all based on the fact that the Pope is about to come to America.
And so Alex wants to get Jesse Ventura on and talk shit about the Pope.
Not realizing Jesse Ventura is not going to play that game.
No.
jordan holmes
Because Jesse doesn't care about the Pope.
dan friesen
Here's the first clip where Jesse expresses exactly what he thinks about the Pope.
jordan holmes
Get out of that mobile and get into the ring.
jesse ventura
I like this Pope.
I'm ready to go out and see him with a big sign.
Atheist for the Pope.
alex jones
Alright.
You know what?
Why do you like this Pope?
Because he likes open borders?
jesse ventura
No, I like this Pope because he said I can go to heaven.
jordan holmes
That's a solid reason.
That's a solid reason.
alex jones
On what subject was that?
jesse ventura
No, the Pope said atheists can go to heaven.
alex jones
Well, I understand that you were made to go.
jesse ventura
I love it.
I have a chance now, you know?
Because he's the highest there is, and he says that I can go.
alex jones
Well, here's where I stand on the whole atheist deal.
I get people that can say, hey, I don't believe in an imaginary guy in the sky.
I believe in science.
I believe one I can empirically see.
Separately, though, humans only see a tiny spectrum of reality.
They've proven dark matter.
They've proven other dimensions.
So many scientists that were atheists.
Get into the genetic engineering realm and go, my God, something made this.
Most scientists do not believe in evolutionary theory now, but it's its own religion, Governor.
unidentified
What?
jesse ventura
But then again, what about this guy they just found lately?
alex jones
This latest ancient humanoid in Africa?
jesse ventura
Yeah, who walked upright, they buried their dad.
Cripe, he looked like a monkey to me.
unidentified
Well, that's offensive.
jordan holmes
Fake laugh.
So fake.
dan friesen
Totally.
But not Jesse's.
jordan holmes
No, Jesse's is real.
dan friesen
Let me be clear.
I think Jesse's high.
unidentified
That could be true.
dan friesen
I think he might be high because there's a couple points where he just starts laughing like that.
Oh, man.
It's great.
jordan holmes
That's fantastic.
dan friesen
So, hold on.
Let's get to Alex's response.
jesse ventura
A gorilla.
He didn't look like my neighbor.
He looked pretty different than me, but yet he looked humanoid, half monkey.
He walked upright and he buried his dad and all this stuff.
I mean, you know, let's remember something, Alex, that whenever man cannot explain something, it's real easy then to attribute it to God.
alex jones
My only issue is so many atheists, and you're not like this, but so many atheists hate people that are religious and act like they're...
Oh, I know a lot of atheists do.
jesse ventura
That is not true, Alex.
Atheists don't hate anybody.
We just don't believe that there's a magical person you talk to.
We don't hate nobody.
You can believe what you want to believe if you want to go worship a tree.
Just don't force it onto me.
dan friesen
So Alex has done a terrible job rebutting anything that Jesse says.
Jesse brings in the new archaeological find of a homo sapien type creature.
Yep.
It sort of invalidates a lot of Alex's arguments.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you don't hear the where's the missing link argument too much from creationists anymore.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Where's the missing link?
Oh, well, that one.
dan friesen
The problem with the idea of the missing link is the idea that there was one.
Yeah, exactly.
jordan holmes
It's an entire...
If you don't believe in evolution, fucking go.
Go away.
dan friesen
The idea that he's saying that most scientists don't believe in evolution anymore is nonsense.
It's the same thing that he says most of them don't believe in climate change.
It's just making an assertion that doesn't...
jordan holmes
That is backed up by nothing.
dan friesen
But if all you read is weird Ukrainian...
Tabloids and Breitbart and stuff like that.
You might get the perception that the rest of the world doesn't believe these things.
It's possible.
jordan holmes
Ukrainian scientists aren't some sort of weird outlier.
dan friesen
No, but I'm saying that your media diet...
jordan holmes
Turkish scientist might be, because he killed all of the good ones.
dan friesen
Or incarcerated them.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know.
I'm just saying that your media diet will dictate what you think is normal.
unidentified
That's true.
dan friesen
And I think Alex Jones' media diet sucks.
jordan holmes
The Vox Newsification of life.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And now Vox News is becoming Infowars Lite.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
Oh, boy.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
Have fun.
So, this next clip, this is really fun for me.
Because Alex Jones brings up the idea of, I shouldn't have to pay for anchor babies.
Which Jesse Ventura responds, why do I have to pay for churches?
And Alex Jones tries to respond to that, forgetting that Jesse Ventura used to be the governor of a state.
So he knows...
jordan holmes
In his defense, it is easy to forget because there's still a part of your brain that goes, wait, what?
dan friesen
Yeah, I know.
jordan holmes
Jesse Ventura was a...
dan friesen
Yeah, he was a governor and a mayor.
And so, like, he has a very intimate knowledge of these sorts of things, and Alex does not.
So listen to this clip.
It's so fun for me.
How badly Alex Jones loses.
Why do you keep having Jesse Ventura on your show?
jordan holmes
He just owns you.
dan friesen
Keeps humiliating you.
jordan holmes
He just owns you the whole time.
alex jones
Don't force me to pay for abortion and don't force me to pay for the Pope.
unidentified
Well, if the leader of Russia came here, would we provide security?
alex jones
I don't think it needs to be the biggest security in history, no.
And that's a foreign leader, not a religious leader.
We have a separation of church and state.
jesse ventura
Excuse me.
There's more Catholics in the world than there probably is in one country.
alex jones
Well, you know, see, I understand.
jesse ventura
Having been in government, Alex, I understand the pomp and circumstance, and I understand what they do and why they do it.
And it's called just proper respect, and it's this and that.
Now, if you want to, well, then I got one for you, Alex.
Why do churches get by tax-free?
alex jones
Because Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Congress has no jurisdiction.
jesse ventura
No, but they get the same benefits that I get.
I'm an atheist.
I have to pay more, yet the church gets its streets plowed, the church gets fire protection, the church gets police protection, doesn't pay a thing for it.
Wait, sounds like you're talking about illegal aliens now.
I've got these guys out there that claim to heal people and all that.
They call themselves a church, and it's done strictly to avoid being taxed on anything.
I think all churches should be taxed.
And it even says in the Bible, Jesus said, let Caesar have what?
Caesar's.
jordan holmes
Get him!
alex jones
Well, that was a question of taxation of the church, and he was saying clearly that that's Caesar's currency, whose face is on it, so that's his system.
So I get what you're saying there.
But in our system...
jesse ventura
Well, as an atheist, why should churches not pay property taxes?
They receive all the benefits.
How come I have to foot...
alex jones
Sure, let me answer the question for you, because...
Thomas Jefferson of the left loves so much.
jordan holmes
Sure.
alex jones
Let's hear this.
The idea of separation of church and state.
That means, as an individual, you can say or do whatever you want in government buildings or government finance facilities like public schools.
jordan holmes
That is not what that means.
That's the opposite of what that means.
alex jones
That's the opposite of what it means.
And that Congress has no authority and can make no law respecting the establishment of religion.
That's also not true.
dan friesen
So we'll get back to it really quick here, but I wanted to pause because he keeps saying that the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof...
jordan holmes
Yeah, he's talking about the First Amendment.
dan friesen
When we talk about Alex Jones being like this kid who read adult books and didn't understand what he was reading and didn't integrate the information, I think he has the same understanding of the First Amendment.
Because he keeps just rattling that off and then misinterpreting what it means.
He has the rote ability to memorize pieces of passages and stuff like that and can just recite them.
But that's not what the free exercise thereof or the establishment of religion's portion of the First Amendment means.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
It's like teaching a horse how to count.
You know, can't really count.
dan friesen
Well, it's the same thing with how he, whenever he cites biblical scripture.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Like, he talks about the prodigal son thing, and he completely gets the point wrong.
jordan holmes
Oh, that one was fun.
dan friesen
He just memorizes stuff and then rattles it off without any ability to contextualize, without any ability to say how this applies to anything.
And that's why you're going to lose against Jesse Ventura.
Because he's coming to the ring with facts and experience.
Now, let's get back to this, because Jesse's about to give him a body slam.
jordan holmes
Okay.
jesse ventura
It has nothing to do with taxing him.
They're getting services, Alex, that I'm paying for.
alex jones
What about the illegals?
The illegals get anger babies for free.
The illegals get all these services.
You're all for that.
jesse ventura
Oh, Alex, come on.
Now you're straight.
The illegals get all the things.
jordan holmes
He almost said stupid.
jesse ventura
The illegals also pay taxes and don't file tax returns.
How about that?
alex jones
How about Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of anger babies and the free exercise?
jesse ventura
You can pay all you want to benefit religion if you desire.
But take it to root, then.
If you're going to use it on one hand, you have to use it on the other hand, too.
alex jones
Well, I think you've got a really good point.
jesse ventura
Being is, how come I have to pay?
You're claiming you shouldn't have to pay for the Pope to be here.
alex jones
I agree.
jesse ventura
And I'm saying, well, how come I have to pay more taxes?
Because churches don't.
alex jones
Well, it's obviously not fair from any perspective.
And let's just be clear.
Because I don't really talk about religion with you a lot.
There is no one more critical.
Of establishment churches and religions, they're political whorehouses, they're frauds, they're jokes, they're con men, most of them, who want to be fake leaders, who sit there and manipulate people and basically sell the equivalent of indulgences.
jesse ventura
And they get to do it tax-free.
alex jones
And I don't like that.
jesse ventura
Because we don't dare touch them because they're religion.
alex jones
Or the press, or the people's right to assemble.
It's the First Amendment, and I think it's a good thing.
The problem is churches now are 501c3.
They're now charities, Governor, so they're not even really churches.
jesse ventura
Since when?
The whole thing of religion is nothing but a massive business.
unidentified
Ooh.
jesse ventura
Why shouldn't they be held to the corporate standards?
They're no different.
Religion's no different than a corporation.
alex jones
Well, I agree with you that churches should have to pay for local services, and in most cases...
They do pay the local taxes for fire and police.
They don't.
jordan holmes
I don't think that's true.
jesse ventura
They're off limits.
You can't tax religion.
Why not?
alex jones
You know, you've been a mayor and a governor, and I don't know Minnesota laws, and I defer to your knowledge on this, but I believe a lot of states, the churches do have to pay the fire fees and the property taxes and the rest of it to a certain extent, but I agree with you.
jesse ventura
I will check up on that before you make that statement.
alex jones
Well, I know it varies state to state.
jesse ventura
That all comes out of property taxes and churches don't pay property taxes.
alex jones
I know in a lot of states they don't or they pay amended lower levels, but listen, I agree with you.
dan friesen
Alex dances off that point after Jesse has completely destroyed it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That comes out of property taxes.
Churches don't pay property taxes.
I was a governor.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I know these things.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Alex is really struggling because he's going back and forth between like, well, what about illegals?
Even though that doesn't make any sense.
And then he rattles off the First Amendment and that doesn't apply.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So he's just, because in each direction he's getting his ass beat, he's trying to switch back and forth and it's just, Jesse has another punch coming from the other angle every time.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Because he...
I strongly disagree with Jesse Ventura's stance that the media was trying to destroy him with that American sniper case.
That narrative that he was pitching months back.
But now, I love him.
jordan holmes
He's coming correct.
dan friesen
The idea that the First Amendment means that we can't tax churches, and Alex brings up, like, I believe we protect journalists.
Journalists get taxed.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he does kind of forget that part of the First Amendment, doesn't he?
dan friesen
If that's the argument he's trying to throw out there, that's poppycock.
Yeah, done.
jordan holmes
And that's the thing that so many...
If you are rattling around the First Amendment, chances are you don't know what it actually means.
dan friesen
And chances are you're about to say something that you probably don't defend.
jordan holmes
Hey, you can't criticize me.
I'm just exercising my free speech.
You're dumb.
You're dumb.
dan friesen
So we have one more clip of Jesse Ventura before we get on to something really weird.
And it's great.
He brings up...
You'll see.
alex jones
My problem is, Jesse, is that they're turning the state and environmentalism and all this other stuff into religions as well.
It's not just the Christians or other religious groups classically.
jesse ventura
You know what I learned, Alex, too, though?
You've got to check up on Horace.
alex jones
What about Horace?
jesse ventura
Horace was Jesus.
alex jones
Well, I do know that they...
jesse ventura
Oh, he's so high.
Commercial music.
Horace was a guy.
alex jones
Goodbye, Alex.
jesse ventura
I'm just saying that you might want to check out that there's two people with the same...
There's two people that existed allegedly.
alex jones
No, no, no.
I know about Zeitgeist.
jesse ventura
There's a part with the same biography.
alex jones
I mean, I know about Zeitgeist.
I'm in it.
I mean, I wasn't part of it, but I'm in the movie.
dan friesen
So that's Alex's way of dismissing, like, historical facts.
Like, yeah, we've all seen Zeitgeist.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
All right, great, great, great.
I just love the humor of, like, I know the guy behind the soundboard was like...
Alright, Jesse brought up Horace.
Long pause.
Alex responds, what are you talking about?
Jesse explains, long pause.
We're going to break.
We're going to break.
Alex has got nothing.
I gotta get him out of this hole.
He has a good support staff.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
I think that's appropriate.
jordan holmes
They tend to play him off appropriately, unlike the Oscars.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
This whole investigation, the whole reason we're back in 2015, is trying to figure out where Alex pivots to supporting Trump.
So we've got to bring up, whenever he brings up something about Trump, here is Alex explaining that he still loves Rand Paul, doesn't support Trump.
jordan holmes
Even though he's had his heart broken.
dan friesen
Yep, but doesn't support Trump yet, but then it pivots into more pro-Russia rhetoric.
jordan holmes
Weird!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Weird!
alex jones
And then another article, all Republican presidential candidates stand for war.
I read that article and I agree with Roberts on most issues, but Rand Paul is not supporting war.
So I'm a little bit confused by that, but almost all of them are.
That is certainly a fair statement.
And look, I've been critical of Rand Paul only saying he should get more fired up.
But if you watched that debate last Wednesday night, and we covered it live here during the 28-hour transmission, He's hands down the best candidate.
I mean, Trump's funny to watch.
He's fun.
He says a lot of stuff that's true.
unidentified
But it's just crazy.
alex jones
You know, talking about optics, I saw a story over the weekend about Vladimir Putin and Berlusconi, the former president of Italy, in eastern Ukraine, in Crimea, at a famous vineyard.
And they opened up a bottle of thousands of bottles of wine that were there that was 200.
And 10 years old.
You can just type in Putin and Berlusconi and Ukraine probe for drinking Crimea wine.
And this is a stunt they know will reach out to the proletariat.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
alex jones
At the time that that bottle of wine was corked, was produced, Russia fully controlled Ukraine.
Wait, is there an argument that it's their wine?
They're now claiming that Putin and Berlusconi stole a bottle of wine that was part of a PR stunt just promoting local Ukrainian wine.
Like, oh, we're here with the farmers.
Yes, let's open some wine.
Why, it's very old.
And then they reduce it down to the ultimate crime.
BBC, CNN, Fox News, Associated Press, Reuters, French news agencies.
Vladimir Putin is there looting the Ukrainian wine.
The globalists over through the country two years ago.
They put it into civil war.
They appointed a government.
They're bombing and shelling all over the country.
The Russians have taken a small area that has their pipelines.
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
unidentified
You shouldn't...
jordan holmes
You just...
unidentified
That's why!
jordan holmes
You just told why!
They've taken a small area, admittedly worth billions of dollars, but it wasn't a big area.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
They didn't take real estate, they took resources.
Oh, I shouldn't have said that last part.
dan friesen
Oops.
jordan holmes
Shouldn't have said that last part.
dan friesen
That's fascinating.
But then the other thing that I think is...
I mean, we can just gloss over the fact that Alex just believes that everything that's bad is the globalists.
jordan holmes
Globalists took over Ukraine two years ago.
dan friesen
But again, that goes back to what we talked about on the last episode with the protocols of the elders of Zion.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The idea that these Zionists, their goal is trying to make countries fight each other.
And so in Alex's conception, they are the globalists and they go destabilize the Ukraine in order to attack Russia.
Yeah.
Crazy.
jordan holmes
Or destabilize Ukraine in order to retake it over?
dan friesen
Maybe.
I don't know.
It's gray.
jordan holmes
I didn't understand the particulars of the Elders of Zion's plan, and I really don't understand globalists, period.
dan friesen
Well, they're the same.
But be that as it may, I think it's fascinating that Alex is talking about his feelings about Rand Paul and Trump, and then has a thought and gets sidetracked into talking about defending Putin.
It's weird.
jordan holmes
That is really weird.
dan friesen
I don't think it necessarily means anything.
jordan holmes
Why was he thinking about that, though?
dan friesen
Well, because Rand Paul needs to be visually more aggressive, and so he started to think about optics, and he started to think about the way leaders present themselves, and that got him on to thinking about how strong Putin is.
jordan holmes
But also, why does he even know that story?
dan friesen
It was a very minor story.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's super minor.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Which means he's reading the Ukrainian Infowars.
That's what he's doing in order to get that story.
dan friesen
I'm going to guess 100%.
It's coming from pro-Russian media.
jordan holmes
Also, anytime Berlusconi's involved, you know there's going to be a rampant theft of money.
There's going to be drinking, and they probably fucked somebody afterwards in a bus.
dan friesen
That's the subtext.
jordan holmes
Berlusconi is the richest bang bus operator in history.
That's exactly what he is.
dan friesen
That's really what's more going on here.
The story is more about Berlusconi.
Yeah, exactly!
jordan holmes
What's Berlusconi?
What's Scone doing there in the first place?
dan friesen
Well, you know.
jordan holmes
He's bored?
dan friesen
Italy has a fascist history.
Might as well lump him in.
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, he wasn't still president back then in 2015, though.
He had already been kicked out for all the crimes.
dan friesen
But he's super rich.
jordan holmes
Yes, he is super rich because of all the crimes.
dan friesen
Right.
Speaking of crimes.
jordan holmes
What crimes?
The crimes-ia?
dan friesen
Yeah.
Alex Jones has a story about a crime that was perpetrated on a citizen by the police.
jordan holmes
Uh-oh.
dan friesen
And you need to hear about this.
But before you do, Alex does not make this very clear.
This happened in 2000, I believe.
The story he's referencing happened in 2000.
jordan holmes
So he's right on time.
dan friesen
It's 15-year-old news.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And let me just tell you, he's lying, and I will tell you the truth after this horrendous display of fake emotion.
alex jones
This is what needs to be done.
I mean, we've got...
People going into men's barbershops saying, cut my hair, and then going and basically trying to start government lawsuits threatening $10,000 fines.
jordan holmes
Bullshit.
alex jones
And getting $700 fines if you go, hey lady, we cut men's hair.
dan friesen
This goes back to a narrative we talked about on a past episode.
Let's just glance past it.
alex jones
That's clearly not discrimination.
It's what you do as a business.
dan friesen
At this point, it's how they operate.
jordan holmes
Did he just get a text message?
dan friesen
At this point, Alex Jones is looking at his phone and taking a text message.
jordan holmes
Very professional.
Just dead air!
alex jones
There's so much going on right now.
There's so much happening.
dan friesen
That's how he comes back.
alex jones
And it makes my head spin.
It absolutely makes my head hurt hard.
Hurt so hard.
Hurt so hard.
Just to see videos like I have in my film.
9-11, The Road to Tyranny that I made 14 years ago, 13 years ago plus.
It was out within three months of 9-11.
Quick work.
Almost like you planned 9-11.
She's a naval veteran, no criminal record, has canning equipment, a VHS tape of Patriot games in her backseat.
jordan holmes
Poor woman.
alex jones
Harrison Ford, the Pchenik book with Clancy.
unidentified
Tom.
And they pull her over.
alex jones
She comes to the checkpoint.
They want to ask her questions.
She says, you don't have a reason to have a checkpoint running.
Are you looking for somebody in particular?
And they go, no.
She goes, I'm not going to do it.
So they drag her out of the car and they find the Patriot Games and they start freaking out and getting scared.
It says the word Patriot.
And it's like a satire piece.
You can't believe they're acting this silly, this freaked out, this crazy.
And then they flip out from there.
And get in her trunk and they find canning supplies.
They think that's really evil.
And then they find a pocket constitution.
unidentified
And they go, oh my god, is this legal?
alex jones
And then a supervisor comes and says, she may be allowed to have that.
Maybe that's what she talks about, how she's got a constitution.
That may be what she means.
But look, we'll just take her to jail and find out.
Is it legal?
I don't know.
Here are guys that have sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence.
It's the whole foundation of the country.
And I'm not making fun of them.
That's how they were talking on the squad car video.
I aired on the radio like all 20 minutes of it.
In the film, there's like three or four minutes of it.
unidentified
And they're just like, oh, boss, she got it.
alex jones
I found one of them.
She's one of them extremists like the Klan or something.
Boss, she got one.
unidentified
Yeah, that sounds like the accent that is against the Klan.
alex jones
She's got a constitution.
I mean, it was like they found a dead, mummified baby in her trunk.
dan friesen
It's interesting.
Alex is so full of shit about this story.
jordan holmes
I'm glad that that's the end of the story and he read it off accurately.
I'm sure there's no other information.
There's no context for that at all.
It's purely a constitution in the trunk.
dan friesen
She found a pocket constitution.
Yeah, in the trunk.
jordan holmes
That means she's in the KKK, right?
dan friesen
This is about a lady named Abby Newman who was pulled over in a traffic stop in 2000 in West Virginia.
She was driving without a license, and she was searched.
Her car was searched.
I don't know about the official record containing any reference to a Constitution or Patriot Games, but the official record does show...
That she had hollow point bullets in her car.
unidentified
Ooh!
dan friesen
Cop killer bullets.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but those are the same thing as a constitution.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's the same thing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There's a one...
Look, you can either have a pocket constitution...
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
...or some cop killing bullets.
It's the same stuff.
It means you know both.
dan friesen
She accused...
jordan holmes
If you've read one, you know how to use the other.
You know what I'm saying, Dan?
dan friesen
In court, she decided to represent herself, which did not go well.
She accused the officers of using excessive force on her.
That was thrown right out because the videotape does not show any force.
jordan holmes
I'm starting to be charmed by her.
dan friesen
I'm starting to like her.
What it shows is her being verbally abusive to the police.
And when they end up handcuffing her, she doesn't make any complaint that the handcuffs are too tight.
There's no real grounds for her argument that they were treating her roughly or anything like that.
But the most important thing is that they did find hollow point illegal bullets.
In her car.
Those are used to kill cops.
jordan holmes
They are used to kill armored animals.
When you're hunting, how else do you get through a turtle shell, Dan?
You need a hollow point to get through.
Armadillos are everywhere in West Virginia.
dan friesen
That's true.
jordan holmes
That can't be true.
dan friesen
I forgot that also deer often do suit up.
jordan holmes
Oh, absolutely.
dan friesen
They use Kevlar.
I forgot about that.
jordan holmes
It's the First Nation.
They put flak jackets on them.
dan friesen
So Alex's other argument is like these cops are being stupid and like, we found one!
An extremist.
She is very clearly a sovereign citizen.
She is a member of the anti-government group.
And I'm basing this on the fact that I'm reading this off from Roanoke.com, an article about her trial.
jordan holmes
It's got to be good.
I love it when the sovereign citizens go to court.
dan friesen
She has also argued in the past that she believes the United States is controlled by the Federal Reserve Bank, which is run by Freemasons who obey the British monarchy.
She has also said that Federal Reserve Bank uses Social Security numbers and birth certificates as certificates of ownership of Americans.
jordan holmes
There we are!
There it is.
There's my favorite one.
dan friesen
Later, she also held up a loaded ammunition clip during an interview and vowed she would never get arrested again.
That's a threat.
So Alex Jones is trying to present it like, she just has a movie and some canning equipment in her car.
jordan holmes
Canning equipment.
dan friesen
No, she is a part of a very scary, fringe, right-wing organization.
Loosely-knit organization.
And how I know that she's a sovereign citizen is this piece.
She believes that the Federal Reserve Bank uses Social Security numbers and birth certificates as certificates of ownership over Americans.
jordan holmes
That's the one we talked about earlier with maritime law and that bullshit, how it's capitalized.
dan friesen
The Social Security numbers that are created are in order to create debt in your name.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
In your corporate identity as opposed to your personhood.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
It's a very big part of the sovereign citizen.
jordan holmes
See, the problem is they use Times New Roman, and we all know that that's a Roman font.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
They're not sovereign over the United States.
You should have used New Republic font, something along those lines.
dan friesen
If it's Alex Jones, you've got to use Wing Dan.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
Because he is nuts.
So that's just a complete lie.
I mean, it's a lie about something that happened 15 years in the past, but a lie nonetheless.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
To make the argument that, oh, the police don't even understand the Constitution.
They hate the Constitution.
No, they hate people who have hollow tip bullets, driving around without a license, and don't believe the government has any authority.
jordan holmes
That's a very reasonable disgust.
dan friesen
Yeah, because that's...
Because cops have been killed by a lot of sovereign citizens.
jordan holmes
You took me on a little bit of an emotional rollercoaster there.
I was kind of on her side for a little bit.
I don't like cops either.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Then you kept going.
The holotip points, not great.
dan friesen
Not great.
jordan holmes
Don't like those.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
That's a bad sign.
Mm-hmm.
The clip being held up and saying, I'll never be arrested again.
dan friesen
Wild.
jordan holmes
No, now I'm on the cop side for real.
dan friesen
For sure.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So the other thing, too, is that this is just another further indication of any time Alex Jones does one of these voices, he's completely lying.
Yeah.
He characterizes somebody with an affectation or whatever.
He's making just shit up.
jordan holmes
He even had the balls to be like, I'm not making fun of these people.
That's the sound of their voices.
And then immediately goes back to, there's a constitution.
Like, it's a bad Adam Sandler voice.
Like, that's what's going on.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
So, get this.
You think that's sort of disrespectful to truth and integrity and journalism.
jordan holmes
And cops!
dan friesen
Right.
You're not ready for what happens next.
unidentified
Oh, no.
dan friesen
On the 21st, Alex Jones has conceptually my favorite guest of all time.
I don't like this guy at all, but the idea that he's on the show is awesome.
alex jones
Well, now driverless pods are already hitting public roads.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
And sex reassessment is latest company benefit in push for equality.
As they echo the food and water.
To further confuse the public sexuality, moving us towards an asexual system where, you know what, there can be no sexualism, there can be no culture of any type, everything's just gray, or you're offending someone else.
Who would have ever thought, that's from Bloomberg Business, that they would actually now be saying ban the word mother and father, husband and wife, boy and girl?
dan friesen
They're not.
alex jones
You see, it moves from accept everyone to you can't be a man or a woman.
That hurts somebody else's feelings.
It's not tolerance.
It's not like I'm tolerant of the LD leather daddy on South Park.
It's that in the future that'll be banned too because it's hurtful of someone who doesn't know Lemmy Winks.
I mean, this is my buddy Pat.
I'm starting to joke around.
I've got to stop right there, bro.
Pat and his wife are really good friends of mine.
We go out in Barton Springs.
You go out on the lake, you name it.
Good friends of mine.
He's also my personal trainer.
You see the terrible job he's been doing.
He's been gone for three and a half weeks every few years.
Pat takes off for a few days, for a few weeks, and he's going to be telling you about his experience in Eastern Europe with the...
Immigrants.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's not the word I'm supposed to use now.
The migrants, the refugees.
So we'll be talking to Pat here in just a moment.
dan friesen
Alex Jones has his personal trainer on as a guest to talk about immigrants.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
dan friesen
Because he just went on vacation to Europe.
jordan holmes
He was personally training him in hatred and Krav Maga.
dan friesen
So, clearly, these guys are bros.
unidentified
You can tell.
alex jones
Yeah, very clearly.
dan friesen
You can tell by the fake laughing and Alex Jones thinking they're messing around.
jordan holmes
I reference South Park.
dan friesen
Yeah, so this guy is a dick.
Like, Alex Jones is a dick.
But this guy brings out so much dickishness in Alex Jones that I wish I had fucking audio of their training sessions.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because Alex is not getting healthier.
He doesn't look good.
So they can't be...
jordan holmes
They can't be doing a good job.
dan friesen
No, but what they have to be doing is just bro-ing out so hard about bigotry.
It's gotta be.
And I love those tapes.
Because, you know, you start getting a little bit of exercise in you, testosterone kicks in.
And you're just like, oh, God.
And this comes out in their interview.
jordan holmes
Just bench press that Muslim.
Just push him out.
Push him out of this country.
dan friesen
The entire interview is essentially about how when he was overseas, Alex Jones' personal trainer saw a lady with some kids who were asking for money outside of a hotel.
And there was a guy who was allegedly this lady's husband who was threatening to jump if they don't get enough money because they can't afford to get wherever they need to go or feed their children.
jordan holmes
Which is terrible, especially when you read the stories now of...
dan friesen
The one that just happened the other day?
unidentified
The one that just happened where that was literally the thing that happened, yeah.
dan friesen
But it wasn't a scam.
They left suicide notes and jumped off a fucking building because they had medical bills they couldn't pay.
jordan holmes
Right.
Or the guy who tried to steal a dollar from the bank.
Mm-hmm.
Jesus.
dan friesen
Nuts.
So, the other thing is, I believe that this probably was a scam.
But there are a lot of scams that people do.
Alex Jones is running a massive one.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, like, the idea that people who are in desperate situations are going to run cons is not really a blight on immigrants.
jordan holmes
No, what they should be doing is running money bombs.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
That's what they should be doing.
dan friesen
They should.
jordan holmes
They could get a million dollars that way.
dan friesen
They paint this as just proof that you can't fucking trust these brown people.
They just run these fucking scams.
Not considering, like, this is a really extreme version of a scam.
This guy is threatening to jump off a building.
Now, he's probably not going to do it, but just the fact that you have to bring suicide into the equation...
That's much different than running around in chiclets.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I mean, you can wash windows or you can threaten suicide.
These are the two things you can do.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
What else is there?
It's a tough economy out there, even for panhandlers.
dan friesen
I hear things like this, and I think about how sad it is that our world is in the situation it's in, where a lot of people are forced to use, you know...
Dishonest means in order to make money out of desperation.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It is a bummer.
jordan holmes
They're called Wall Street, Dan.
dan friesen
Meanwhile, Alex and his bro-out physical personal trainer, they have a slightly different angle on the whole thing.
alex jones
That's a great...
Well, that's what the gypsies do in Europe.
jordan holmes
Oh, no!
No, no, no, no!
alex jones
They'll take their firstborn whatever and maim it.
unidentified
Absolutely.
alex jones
Break the arm, twist it, burn it with acid.
And then the childhoods are going, uh, begging, and then you're supposed to give them money.
And it's like, well, it's their culture to maim their children.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
alex jones
Well, I guess it was the Nazis' culture to kill everybody.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
alex jones
I don't support any of that.
No, we have to learn to discriminate against cultures that are twisted and corrupt.
dan friesen
Alright, let's start with the South.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no kidding.
dan friesen
And the lingering South.
Let's start with that.
Let's start with your culture, Alex.
Let's start with your weird constitutionalist anti-government groups.
jordan holmes
Hey man, the gypsies aren't the one being racist to black people in the South.
The gypsies aren't the one who enslaved them.
The gypsies aren't the one who did the Tuskegee experiments.
The gypsies aren't the people who have done all of this shit.
And also...
Don't say the word gypsy!
That's very awful!
dan friesen
Yeah, call him Romani.
But be that as it may, I'm not making that argument.
I'm not saying we should discriminate against Alex's culture.
unidentified
Of course not.
dan friesen
I'm just saying that, like...
jordan holmes
Well, I mean, it is a bad culture, and we should kick all of them out of our country.
dan friesen
It's not great.
It's not a great culture that Alex lives in.
But be that as it may, you know, it's within his right to exist in that culture and spout the bullshit that he spouts.
I don't understand how he doesn't get that the same thing that protects his sort of right to exist is what protects everyone's right to exist.
jordan holmes
It's because they just don't understand the...
Well, I mean, what was the phrase that Ventura used?
If it works for one hand, it has to work for the other.
dan friesen
You have to use it on both hands.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
It's the same shit with Trump tweeting out like it should always be a popular vote.
And you're like, God damn it, you idiot.
Do you not understand for a second how this shit actually works?
dan friesen
Right.
And that will fuck you over in the long run.
Yeah.
So, great.
jordan holmes
Good job, Trump.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You fucking idiot.
dan friesen
Well, it's just bad solutions to, uh...
jordan holmes
Either non-existent problems or made-up ones.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, you're gonna need to put the mic down for this next clip.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because Alex Jones and his trainer get into...
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
I don't want to hear this.
dan friesen
It's pretty bad.
It's one of the more misogynistic things I've heard on his program.
jordan holmes
That's saying a lot!
dan friesen
I said not the most, maybe, but one of the most.
This is real grim.
jordan holmes
All right, mic down.
dan friesen
And I think they think they're riffing, which makes it worse.
alex jones
Well, Pat Riley is here with us.
You drop by occasionally and hang out in the studio.
You've been gone for three weeks.
But you were there in Europe during the midst of this.
All I've got to say is the Croatia photos, man, where is that lake you were at?
unidentified
Plitvich Lakes and Kyrka were two national parks that I went to.
alex jones
You were telling me the women are particularly not good-looking in that area?
unidentified
Not at all.
My wife was happy to know that there were some extremely unattractive women there.
alex jones
Because your wife went for two weeks, but then you went for three.
unidentified
Correct.
alex jones
But you were a good boy.
jordan holmes
I was very good, of course.
unidentified
Good man.
alex jones
All right.
jordan holmes
The women are ugly.
The women are ugly.
unidentified
Continue.
Proceed.
alex jones
But you said the further you go east, the better looking they get.
unidentified
Absolutely.
alex jones
Total torture.
unidentified
Hands down.
jordan holmes
Patrick Carley says that.
alex jones
Certified delicious women.
unidentified
The food was good, too.
alex jones
But, you know, the feminists say we're not supposed to compliment women because they control women.
That's their territory.
They run the women.
And most top feminists, I understand, are lesbians.
And so they want like a...
Like a giant elephant seal out there with their harem going, my women!
My women!
Can we show some elephant seals, dominant elephant seals?
And so they're just telling us, stay away from their women.
But I just want to tell all of them, no!
We're muscling into the table.
No, you don't get all the women!
My women!
unidentified
That's only fair.
alex jones
You want to do an elephant seal imitation?
jordan holmes
No, I'm cool on that.
alex jones
You know, that's how you secretly go to a beach and pick up all the women.
dan friesen
First of all, that guy definitely cheated on his wife.
That the way they were talking, he absolutely...
That whole thing of, like, they're all ugly women is his way of, like, saying the opposite.
I don't like any of that.
jordan holmes
I don't even like speculating on this shit right there.
dan friesen
Their terrible chemistry leads me to believe he fucked some European women.
But secondly...
jordan holmes
Well, he's a personal trainer.
I'm assuming he's fairly...
Fuck this guy, I hope.
Why didn't he get kidnapped in a taken situation and his wife was like, yeah, you got him.
You keep them.
unidentified
You're good.
jordan holmes
You guys keep them.
dan friesen
The only thing I respect about him is that Alex is like, you want to do an elephant seal impression?
He's like, no.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I respect that.
The rest of it, terrible.
unidentified
Jesus.
dan friesen
So Alex's idea that feminists have...
jordan holmes
That's what they want you to do.
dan friesen
Oh, fucking Christ.
They're lesbians.
The top feminists are lesbians.
jordan holmes
Top feminists.
dan friesen
Which, you're right, that's an absurd idea.
Just the idea of top feminists.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they're the best feminists.
dan friesen
There's power rankings in the feminism world.
jordan holmes
No, I'm at, what?
I'm at 1.3 million 245?
That's where I'm at?
dan friesen
I'm a little lower than that.
jordan holmes
You're a little lower than that?
Oh man, you gotta catch up.
dan friesen
I'm taking some hits publicly.
unidentified
But be that as it may, I'll never break into the top million.
jordan holmes
I'll tell you that right now.
dan friesen
So let's pretend that that is at all reasonable.
Then Alex is...
jordan holmes
That's a long jump.
dan friesen
And that they're lesbians and that they want a harem of women that they don't want dudes getting into.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Even if...
jordan holmes
That makes sense.
dan friesen
Even...
jordan holmes
Elephant seals.
dan friesen
Even if that's true.
Alex Jones' argument that, no, I'm muscling in, that's still bad.
jordan holmes
That's still fucked up.
dan friesen
What we don't need in terms of our...
jordan holmes
Him saying, like, no, you shouldn't dominate these women!
I should be the one who dominates these women.
You don't even know what they really want.
I'm the only one who can dominate these women.
I should have a harem.
dan friesen
Fuck that!
jordan holmes
Fucking Christ.
dan friesen
No matter what, it's still looking at women as things.
And it's so fucking wrong.
It's so toxic.
Just this idea.
jordan holmes
Well, and he's equating that he's just projecting his...
Bullshit onto lesbians, imagining that, well, if it's a female who acts like a male, then she just needs to be reminded that she's not me.
Like, that kind of shit.
dan friesen
And further, what he's projecting is what he would do in someone else's situation.
jordan holmes
Exactly!
The same way he fucking always does.
dan friesen
If I were a top feminist, I would try and get a harem of women.
That's basically what he's saying.
And it makes sense that he ended up marrying an erotic masseuse.
His personal life is off-limits, but that's public.
That's out there.
jordan holmes
Okay, alright.
I didn't know that.
dan friesen
Yeah, his new wife is...
Well, not new.
He's been married for a little while.
Yeah, she was apparently a...
jordan holmes
She was a jerk-off lady.
dan friesen
It's possible.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Anyway.
jordan holmes
Not to slander her.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Maybe she just...
Danced a little while massaging?
dan friesen
Who knows?
jordan holmes
I don't know what erotic masseuse is.
dan friesen
Anyway, that's the end of our coverage of September 21st.
And we'll move along now to September 22nd.
jordan holmes
Jesus Christ.
Those two guys talking is disgusting.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's really bad.
I cut out all the stuff about the actual immigrants that he saw.
I mean, we can distill it into one sentence.
Like we did, but the rest of it is just sort of like, you know, these are untrustworthy.
These two guys together are horrible.
jordan holmes
It's that kind of thing that...
I thought it was bullshit, the argument that Trump immediately got out of after the grab-em-by-the-pussy thing, where he's like, oh, it's just locker room talk.
I thought, there's no way that anybody will buy that bullshit.
It's so transparently dumb.
And that is exactly what...
Apparently this happens.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
This happens a lot!
dan friesen
Just not with the people we hang out with.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no!
We're just in this weird bubble of not being horrifying!
dan friesen
Yeah.
The other thing I want to point out...
jordan holmes
I mean, we're still horrifying, but in different ways.
dan friesen
Maybe this is a minor thing for me to be pointing out, but...
Dude, this is the big leagues.
This isn't some podcast.
You're having your personal trainer as a guest?
Come with it, man!
Like, you have...
A billion people you reach every month.
You have hundreds of millions of listeners.
And for an expert, you decide to get your fucking personal trainer?
jordan holmes
Yeah, but he's his bro, man!
dan friesen
That doesn't cut it.
jordan holmes
It's the same thing.
Like, how many comedy shows have you been to where it's like, oh, that guy did not get booked because he was good.
He got booked because he was friends with the guy running the show.
It's the same thing.
It's the same thing.
dan friesen
That doesn't happen in the big leagues.
jordan holmes
I don't think that's true at all.
dan friesen
I don't think JFL is booking based on friendship, let's say.
jordan holmes
I disagree sometimes.
dan friesen
Maybe.
I mean, if you count agents...
unidentified
Maybe that's just me being bitter that I've never been booked for JFL.
jordan holmes
That could be it, too.
dan friesen
If you count agents as friendship, maybe my argument falls apart.
Be that as it may.
We've got to get on to the 22nd.
Alex Jones has an interesting guest on the 22nd.
More interesting than his personal trainer, that's for sure.
And I'll let him...
jordan holmes
Does his personal trainer at least give us any tips?
dan friesen
Nope.
jordan holmes
None at all?
dan friesen
Nothing to do with your delts or quads.
jordan holmes
God damn it.
dan friesen
Here's Alex introducing who his guest...
jordan holmes
Use a new arm workout.
dan friesen
This is Alex saying who his guest is going to be on the 22nd.
alex jones
Ladies and gentlemen, we're live.
We're broadcasting worldwide on this Tuesday, the 22nd day of September 2015.
We do have some guests joining us for about 30 minutes at the start of the next hour.
Diamond and Silk.
The two very entertaining and informative black ladies that have been so viral on the internet promoting Donald Trump.
I wanted to get them on the show so they'll be popping in with us to talk all things Donald Trump and election 2016 for 30 minutes at the start of the next hour.
jordan holmes
This is where the pivot comes, isn't it?
Not really.
He wants to fuck these two girls.
dan friesen
No, I don't think that's the case, but it is indicative of a pivot.
In some ways.
Because there's no reason to have these two ladies on your show unless you just want someone parroting Donald Trump propaganda.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Pro-Donald Trump arguments.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Because the two of them, God bless them, they're doing whatever they want to do, but it's just basically them yelling, we stumped for Trump, he's going to bring our jobs back, all the Trump talking points.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Why did they go viral?
dan friesen
Because it's two black ladies sitting in front of a webcam just doing like, ooh, you said it!
Like that sort of stuff.
jordan holmes
Oh.
dan friesen
But it's for Trump.
And the reason it goes viral is because it's so against type.
You expect to hear like hillbillies endorsing Trump.
jordan holmes
It's just like Alex with the one black pastor.
It's like, this legitimizes everything that we say now.
If two black ladies are on our side, we can be as racist as we want.
dan friesen
And I don't know what their story is.
I don't know what their history is.
I do know that of the stuff I've seen of them, they don't really have...
What appears to be a nuanced position on the issues.
Okay.
It's difficult for me to encapsulate what I mean.
jordan holmes
Are Diamond and Silk their real names?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't care.
From what I can tell, basically, they just repeat pro-Trump stuff.
And that was their claim to fame.
The interview that Alex Jones ends up having is not substantive in any way.
And we'll get to one clip of it a little bit later.
But before we do, it's important that on the 22nd, Alex Jones has finally found...
jordan holmes
What he's looking for?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
He still hasn't found what he's looking for.
dan friesen
It recently came out in the Salon article, Todd Nickerson, the article where the guy...
Comes out and explains that he has an attraction to children but would never act on it.
jordan holmes
Ah, yes.
dan friesen
And Alex Jones has been saying that the globalists are going to try and mainstream pedophilia and try and make it so if you are against pedophilia, you are a pedophobe.
And so Alex makes a fucking meal out of this article.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
And let's just jump into it.
alex jones
Back to Salon.
I'm going to cover this more later.
I saw this last night.
And Kit Daniels wrote a story about it.
Louder with Crowder has a story out on it today.
The headline is, No Salon, I Don't Need to Understand the Plight of Pedophiles.
And here's the headline.
I'm a pedophile, but not a monster.
And it's begun.
So it's begun.
They're accepted NGO, non-governmental organization of the UN.
dan friesen
They're not.
alex jones
I mean, just like I said earlier this week or last week, what do you think Jocelyn Elders...
When she was the, that's why I've been bringing her back up, the Surgeon General said, we need to help the little children masturbate.
It's about weirdos sexually getting their hands on your kids.
Because if they can do that, they can do anything.
Forced inoculations, you name it.
And California passed a law two years ago saying, we'll give your kids inoculate.
jordan holmes
I don't like the acceleration.
Whatever.
Fuck this.
unidentified
Stupid.
jordan holmes
I hated that whole thing because reading that was such a complex situation.
dan friesen
Very much so.
jordan holmes
So for somebody who's trying to understand people and figure out what is...
Not just like, oh, let's kill these guys, but how do we actually practically reduce...
Pedophilia and all of these things.
dan friesen
Well, it's like what we've talked about with gun stuff.
The end result that we want is less people being killed by guns.
In terms of pedophiles, what we want is less children being abused.
And if the root to that end goal that we like is a further understanding of where does this come from, what is going on in the psychology of the people who are attracted to children, then it behooves you to...
Have some understanding.
That doesn't mean liking it.
That doesn't mean accepting it.
That doesn't mean mainstreaming it.
But it does mean...
The end goal is not well achieved by murdering everybody who has attractions to children.
The end goal of that will be everyone going underground.
And you've seen that.
You've seen the dark web connections that people have of child porn.
jordan holmes
And just like the guy said in the article, it's like, I can't...
I can't tell my therapist.
I can't tell my psychiatrist.
I can't tell people.
unidentified
No, you can't.
jordan holmes
Because they're...
Well...
dan friesen
They don't have an obligation to report just that you have attractions to children.
jordan holmes
But that's what they're saying.
unidentified
Most therapists will be disgusted.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they won't do that.
Not that they can't, but that they won't because of such this terror.
And there's a part of you that's like, fucking...
No, you're a...
Like, all of these different complicated things.
And that's our issue.
If you're on the right...
Nope.
Simple.
It's skeet shooting.
It goes up, you shoot it down.
It's an easy narrative for them to push.
dan friesen
It fits so perfectly into fear-mongering and othering.
And I get it.
I get it.
I don't think that Alex Jones is a complete idiot for being averse to this.
But I think he's being incredibly dishonest by saying...
That it is part of a push to mainstreamize pedophilia.
And then beyond that, the things that he uses to bolster that is saying that pedophiles are a recognized non-governmental organization with the UN, which isn't true.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that was the NAMBLA stuff from way back when.
dan friesen
Right, there was the gay advocacy group that in the early 80s included NAMBLA.
The Gay Rights Organization became a recognized advisory member of the UN, and then it came out, oh wait, NAMBLA's part of your group.
So they got kicked out.
jordan holmes
And then they kicked NAMBLA out.
dan friesen
Yes.
NAMBLA has never been a part of advisory committees for the UN.
It's just a complete lie that he knows no one's going to look into.
Then beyond that, we see him doing a voice with Jocelyn Elders, which should tell you he's lying.
And he absolutely is.
Jocelyn Elders just said that in terms of discouraging dangerous behaviors, maybe children should learn about masturbating.
Maybe.
It's not saying, hey, go jack off those kids.
Hey, teachers, what you should do is get in those pants.
She didn't say that.
And Alex is just lying about it.
jordan holmes
And that would be wild if she did.
dan friesen
But so the fact that he's using these two absolute sort of definable lies to bolster his argument should tell you that he's not willing to wrestle with the nuance that we were sort of just indicating.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
That's the problem.
In that situation, everybody who is, you know, capable of reason is paralyzed by that.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Because you're just, there's so much to kind of sift through.
Whereas if you're on the right, you just get to fucking put your ears back and go whole hog into this.
And there's no way to, for, like, the argument that I can have with him is just, it's really complicated.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And I don't think there's any way you'll ever understand it.
dan friesen
If I were talking to Alex Jones about these things, I'd be like, I'm gonna punt.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
No, this one's...
I don't know.
I don't know.
There's no easy answer.
There's no clear answer.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
So I just...
I don't know, man.
I got nothing.
dan friesen
Anyway, if you think he's done a bad job so far...
Let's listen to this next clip where he gets into some analysis.
jordan holmes
I thought it was already over.
I thought he had already fucked everybody up.
dan friesen
No, he has some analysis about the article.
jordan holmes
He can't have analysis.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, I guess technically he doesn't, but he tries.
He tries.
jordan holmes
By definition, gotcha.
alex jones
Now, writing for Salon, Todd Nickerson says this.
Isn't he brave coming out of the closet?
Maybe he should be on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Maybe he should get an ESPN award.
jordan holmes
I don't think he should be.
Then he would be hurt by a lot of people.
dan friesen
But also, right there, what he's doing is subconsciously implanting in his audience's mind a connection between pedophiles and Caitlyn Jenner.
He's trying to create a soft mental bridge between pedophiles and transgender people.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
He's absolutely doing that.
It's intentional.
jordan holmes
I did not...
dan friesen
It's not intentional in the sense that he meant to, but it's how his mind works.
jordan holmes
It's intentional in the way that all of their minds work.
dan friesen
Right, absolutely.
jordan holmes
We can't have gay marriage because gay people are pedophiles.
Like, that whole thing...
Well, way back when.
dan friesen
He'll deal with that in a second.
Yeah.
But beyond whatever he's about to say...
Right there is an indication that at least on some level he equates transgender people with pedophiles.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Which is fucking atrocious.
But be that as it may.
alex jones
I'm a pedophile, but not a monster.
I'm attracted to children, but unwilling to act on it.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
alex jones
Before judging me harshly, would you be willing to listen?
And this is exactly...
How the homosexual lobby started back in the 40s and 50s with articles in Reader's Digest saying the exact same thing.
And then you can say, hey, that's adults, that's consenting, that's gone on forever.
Absolutely.
Homosexuals and pedophiles are two different categories.
Totally.
jordan holmes
Stop there.
Stop there.
Just stop there.
alex jones
The larger agenda, forget homosexuals, forget heterosexuals, forget any of these groups and labels.
jordan holmes
You are so close.
alex jones
The larger globalist dehumanization, THX 1138, Brave New World, Brave New World Revisited, UNESCO Worldwide Treaty Arrangement Agreement.
jordan holmes
That's a long name.
alex jones
Is to use sexuality as we know it.
jordan holmes
It's a long name for that agreement.
alex jones
And make us asexual bots.
If they choose to even keep humanoids around, this debate was being held back in the 30s.
dan friesen
Great.
jordan holmes
So they've chosen to keep us around?
alex jones
So there's an attack on femininity, there's an attack on masculinity, there's an attack on the species.
And there's a revolution of women, I've noticed, waking up to this more than even men.
And there's a major trying to get back to the true nature of humanity and how empowering it is.
jordan holmes
Back to reality.
alex jones
Not the twisted roles that certainly were there under classical male masculinity, feminine, femininity.
jordan holmes
Femininity.
alex jones
The god, the goddess, the archetypes.
dan friesen
Sure.
So, that's nonsense.
jordan holmes
Utter balderdash.
dan friesen
The idea, like, I love that THXYYZ.
jordan holmes
1138 Agreement World Association.
Dominating balls.
alex jones
Brave New World.
dan friesen
Brave New World.
Revisited UNESCO Agreement.
jordan holmes
1984 through 1988.
dan friesen
That's just word salad.
He's just throwing a bunch of stuff there, hoping that it sounds official.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Secret treaties.
What the fuck are you talking about?
This is all nonsense.
And the fact that where he goes with it is like, they're trying to attack masculinity and femininity.
That's your takeaway from this article?
jordan holmes
That's as far away from what...
That's nowhere near it.
dan friesen
What are you doing?
unidentified
Well...
dan friesen
Even rhetorically, that doesn't make sense.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
Like, just from a position of like, okay, you're trying to make a bad argument.
That's how you choose to do it?
unidentified
Weird.
dan friesen
Weird.
Anyway, Alex has another thing he wants.
jordan holmes
Maybe he's high today.
dan friesen
He might be.
There's something he wants to point out that is trying to bolster his claims.
jordan holmes
Maybe he got that with the Ventura interview.
He's like, man.
Ventura's really high, and he kicked my ass.
dan friesen
I better get high.
jordan holmes
Maybe if I'm high, I'll be just as good.
dan friesen
Or maybe it's the one time a year he smokes weed to test the potency.
jordan holmes
Could be.
dan friesen
Just happened to do it before his show.
So here's a...
jordan holmes
And he gets to the station and is like, whoops.
dan friesen
Here's something real dicey.
alex jones
And now it's come out that we're cover-ups, and that Sandusky Foundation was supplying children statewide.
dan friesen
So this is one of Alex's big...
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
This is one of his big arguments that, you know, he talks about procurers and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And, you know, there was that Boys Town situation that happened where there was, definitively, it had been proven that people were, you know, taking these underprivileged kids and senators were doing shit with them.
unidentified
Wow.
dan friesen
You remember that story?
jordan holmes
I do, but that's...
dan friesen
The Conspiracy of Silence documentary?
jordan holmes
That's fucked up.
dan friesen
Yeah, it is super fucked up, but...
Such has not been at all proven as it relates to Sandusky and his, I believe it's called the Second Mile or something like that, his organization that was...
jordan holmes
Supporting Youth.
dan friesen
Yeah, he was trying to get kids to play sports, but obviously it was a way for him to groom victims.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he was just grooming kids, yeah.
dan friesen
Right.
So, I mean, there are a lot of problems with it.
jordan holmes
He wasn't procured.
dan friesen
There's no indication of that at all.
Investigations have been done, and past investigations have shown, as in the case of the Boys Town situation, that that was what was going on.
In this case, there is no indication.
So I looked into it and tried to find, where is this stuff coming from?
And I think I figured it out.
And that is that allegations that Sandusky was pimping out children come from a radio host named Mark Madden.
jordan holmes
Who is actually Larry Nichols with a mustache on.
dan friesen
It might as well be.
He, in 2011, said, quote, I can give you a rumor and I can give you something I think might happen.
I hear there's a rumor that there may be more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation.
And hold on to your stomach, boys, because this is gross.
I will use the language I can, that Sandusky and the Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors.
That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak.
How does that sentence start?
I have a rumor.
So when he was pressed on it, he said this, I normally abhor giving rumors credence, but the whole Sandusky scandal started out as a rumor.
It gets deeper and more disgusting all the time.
It's a rumor!
It's a rumor that some radio host put out into the world and Alex Jones has been peddling his entire worldview about these pedophiles and the Renfields and Draculas basically on this.
This is Pizzagate shit.
This is that level of internet mobbery.
Like, I'm not trying to defend Sandusky or Joe Paterno or anybody involved in this.
They're all fucking awful monsters.
jordan holmes
Yeah, no, I hope they all die twice.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
And clearly, indications have come out that Joe Paterno was aware of this dating back to the 70s.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he knew.
dan friesen
Like, he was not innocent in any of this.
unidentified
Uh-uh.
dan friesen
So, I'm not at all giving them a pass.
What I am saying is it's irresponsible journalism on Alex Jones' part to try and create this broader spider web that's going on, when in the truth, it's just...
jordan holmes
It's just a fucking monster.
dan friesen
What we can tell is it's one monster who is looking for his own victims.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So I don't think in terms of official information, and maybe there is something out there that I'm unaware of, and if that's the case, please feel free to tell me.
But from what I've been able to glean, the idea that there was procurement and pimping out of these children goes back to rumors as opposed to actual truth.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And, like, Alex, you've got to do better.
You've got to do better.
I understand that you want to launch conspiracy theories and you want people to distrust mainstream narratives, but you can't just do this.
You really sensationalize a real problem to the point where you lose your credibility about that real problem.
jordan holmes
Right.
But the problem for defeating his argument there means you do have to kind of take Sandusky's side in saying, you know, He was a monster, but at least he didn't procure kids.
That's such an awful place to be.
I'm not willing.
Sandusky is not going to sue him for libel.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
That's not going to happen.
Even though he could win.
dan friesen
Possibly.
jordan holmes
You know?
But you don't want to do that.
dan friesen
You don't have the responsibility to prove a negative.
He wouldn't have to, in court, prove that he's never procured children for anybody.
Alex would have to prove that he did.
jordan holmes
But you would see the headline, Sandusky sues Alex for libel, and that's fucking horrific.
Nobody wants you to even be alive.
We definitely don't want you to win a lawsuit.
dan friesen
If it's against Alex, that's a real...
jordan holmes
That puts us in a real pickle, doesn't it?
That's in a real bind.
dan friesen
That's tough.
I still...
I'm glad it never happened.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly, right?
dan friesen
I don't want to deal with that.
jordan holmes
But that's why he can make this argument so spuriously.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
It's because nobody wants to be in that position.
Oh, fuck you.
Fuck Alex Jones.
Fuck him.
Fuck him.
dan friesen
Amen.
But this leads...
jordan holmes
And fuck Sandusky.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
And Paterno.
And fucking...
Why are we here?
dan friesen
I don't know.
But anyway.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
Alex Jones...
jordan holmes
Why did you take me to this place?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Very angry.
dan friesen
You know who else is angry?
Alex.
jordan holmes
Alex is angry?
alex jones
And that's not talk.
It's really easy to beat somebody's brains out when you want to.
unidentified
Alright, no!
alex jones
You just decide to do it.
Humans have a governor.
You get in a fight with me, I don't have a governor.
If you're hurting me or hurting my children, I will decide to hurt you.
I will will it.
I will punch you in the throat.
And then you can drown on your own blood.
And people say, that sounds evil and hateful.
No, it doesn't.
It's the right spirit.
Against this type of garbage.
You keep your filthy hands off our kids, you perverts.
And that goes for those medical perverts that want to inject them with all these deadly vaccines.
dan friesen
Oh boy.
Alright.
Well, I mean, to some extent, I kind of agree with that being the rage impulse that you would have.
jordan holmes
I think he just said he wasn't human.
I think he just said he doesn't have a governor.
Humans have governors.
I don't have a governor.
dan friesen
I've trained myself not to.
jordan holmes
Therefore, logically, you are no longer human.
dan friesen
It's probably because of the brain damage he suffered as a child.
jordan holmes
Entirely possible.
dan friesen
Be that as it may.
I get it.
I get the idea of, like, what you'd call a crime of passion, where you find your kid being abused and you beat someone to death.
I understand that.
I get it.
I get that reaction.
I don't get Alex Jones' equating it with vaccines.
I think that's troubling.
The idea that these are medical perverts who want to shoot up your children with stuff.
Very weird, but I hate that.
I hate that, like, it's easy to beat someone's brains in.
That sort of shit.
jordan holmes
That's creepy shit.
dan friesen
Yep, and it's gonna get worse.
Here's this next clip.
alex jones
You should be attracted to help children and build them up and nurture them.
Okay, good.
Stop.
You should be attracted to defending them like I'm attracted to wanting to get my hands around your throat.
unidentified
No!
alex jones
I'm attracted to you now.
Do you understand that?
But not the way you...
Just imagine.
Blow.
unidentified
Just...
Ah!
alex jones
Out of the jaw.
Go!
unidentified
Break!
Ah!
jordan holmes
Yeah!
alex jones
Watch that evil fall to the ground.
Excuse me.
I shouldn't even be on here today reading this.
I saw this last night.
And I already knew it was all coming, but oh, now we're going to be pedophobes.
I mean, just, you know, pedophile-phobes.
unidentified
Oh, God, help us.
alex jones
They're never going to stop.
They're going to put drugs in the food and water more intense when we barely can resist.
I mean, it's just so evil.
Everybody's going to be dying of cancer all around us just with pot-bellied pedophiles hopping around like it's Super Mario Brothers, you know, grabbing our children, giggling, bouncing on to the necks with SWAT teams defending them as they just pick which kids they want.
And as giant third-world hordes just pour in, raping everyone, just sexualizing our children, ruling everything, debasing the currency, drugging the food and water, giving everyone cancer, and just dancing to their god of death, selling body parts, chopping up babies that battle the scalpel.
I mean, it's just on.
Hell on Earth, the gates are opening, and out will flood the armies.
dan friesen
I gotta say, don't bring Super Mario into this.
jordan holmes
That would be great if nearing the end of the rant, the exit music just said...
unidentified
Whatever the death music is.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, that's just a weird, like, violent fantasy that Alex Jones is engaging in.
jordan holmes
He's jerking off to justified violence.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
It's what they all fucking do.
They just want to kill somebody and they don't want to be in trouble for it.
dan friesen
And he's pantomiming it, too.
Like, he's throwing punches in the air and, like, it's crazy.
Yeah.
I agree with him.
He should not be on air today.
Yeah, no kidding.
Also, I want to say that I'm starting to figure out Alex Jones' pattern in terms of his manic episodes.
Because now we've seen about three of them.
He's about to get into one.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Oh, he's already ramping up.
dan friesen
I think we can find his cycle.
Oh, really?
I think we can, based on a couple past months.
I think he is about a 40-day cycler.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I haven't figured it out exactly, and we're going to need more evidence.
Because one of them falls on when he was on a vacation.
He might have been freaking out in Europe.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
Yeah, I'm about two months.
I'm about two and a half months, something along those lines.
dan friesen
And people have different calendars as that go.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
But I think we're going to be able to...
jordan holmes
And then you add stressors in there and you figure out your shit, but...
Yeah, the cycle's about that.
dan friesen
So, Alex Jones is engaged in what is now a couple of very violent diatribes about pedophiles and how he wants to beat people's brains in.
I implore you to listen to this next clip where he's responding to a caller talking about other civilizations having very low age of consent.
alex jones
Look, any old world culture, women started getting married at 13, 14, 15, because technically you can say that they're a woman at that point.
Western culture, we started arresting development to push it back to, you know, 18 or whatever.
I personally think 16's probably the proper age.
dan friesen
Huh.
He thinks proper age of consent is 16. May I offer this?
The age of consent in Texas is 17. So what Alex Jones is actually advocating is dropping of the age of consent.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah.
dan friesen
There are a lot of states where...
jordan holmes
If you hate pedophiles, just make it harder to be one.
Just make it mathematically harder.
dan friesen
There are a number of states, probably about 20 states or so, where the age of consent is 16, but the rest of the country it's 17 or 18. And that doesn't even get into the idea that there are different age of consent laws for heterosexual and homosexual sex, which is very weird.
But be that as it may, what he's advocating...
jordan holmes
At a certain point, there should be different age of consent laws for every person.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
This whole thing is fucked up.
dan friesen
There are very few states, there are a couple, where the age of consent is 15 or 14. Which is wild.
jordan holmes
Well, there are places where you can be legally married at 14 or 13, and that's fine.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Even though you're still below the age of consent.
dan friesen
So there are a couple states where Alex's 16-year-old would bump it up from 15 to 16. But largely what he'd be advocating is a drop of the age of consent.
So he has this whole...
Episode where he's like, these non-acting pedophiles are lying and I want to beat their brains in and they're just going to call me a pedophobe.
Let's drop the age of consent.
jordan holmes
It's very weird.
That's him more negotiating with pedophiles.
dan friesen
Somewhat.
But it's very weird.
The idea that he doesn't see that these two things are sort of working against each other sort of philosophically.
jordan holmes
And his other thing is...
His line should be hard 18. His other thing though is that he kind of suggests that...
Western culture did it on purpose.
dan friesen
Intentionally, we delayed development.
jordan holmes
Like, we delayed human development.
Right.
dan friesen
Not realizing it's sort of an unforeseen byproduct of the agricultural revolution.
jordan holmes
Or even just, what does that mean?
What argument is that?
dan friesen
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
The idea that it was fine, that it was 13 or 15 back then, until Western cultures decided to...
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't want to unpack it.
I want to get out of this segment of the show.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I don't like it at all.
dan friesen
This is gross.
jordan holmes
Alex is gross.
dan friesen
He's gross.
Let's move out of this and move back to what is becoming incredibly familiar territory, where a little bit later on the 22nd, Alex Jones also says once again that Putin is a good guy.
alex jones
So that's all coming up, and I'm going to get into Putin deploys now 28 combat planes.
It was four to Syria.
We've known for years there's Russian troops.
Now the news is like, okay, the Russians are really there.
I mean, you read foreign news, it's all admitted.
You read our news, it's like crazy, because they don't even want you to know that Putin keeps saying for three years, join me in fighting al-Qaeda, join me in fighting ISIS.
They won't even say it in our news.
That's how ignorant the people are, because of the media to a great extent.
Or now the media is like, yeah, Putin snuck in, he invaded Syria.
Like, he invaded Ukraine.
Oh my gosh, we gotta do something.
This is a huge provocation.
When Putin's been on the world stage for at least three years saying, okay, he'll give up his chemical weapons, he'll work with you, we'll elect a new government, let's bring in UN troops with US troops, let's work together, let's kick the radical jihadists out, Russia is ready for a joint deal.
jordan holmes
Bullshit.
alex jones
And they go, no.
And launch a chemical attack and blame it on Assad and Putin.
I mean, I read newspapers and it's just like...
Every day there's an editorial with an editorial cartoon where Putin's giving chemical weapons to Assad.
It's just all made up.
It's admitted Al-Qaeda launched those attacks.
dan friesen
It's not, but I mean, you would get that if you just read pro-Russian media, so that is probably where a lot of that is coming from.
jordan holmes
Yeah, if you're saying that you think Al-Qaeda used chemical attacks instead of Assad, that is...
That is so in denial of reality.
dan friesen
Well, where he takes that from...
jordan holmes
Which is why it would be from Russian propaganda.
dan friesen
Yeah, he takes that from Russian media sources, like the ones we've discussed.
He also takes it from, there was that ambassador...
Putin who was like, yes, he's doing great in Syria.
I know for a fact that Syria, the chemical weapon attacks were staged and Assad is a good guy.
All right.
I don't think that you are an unbiased source.
jordan holmes
No, that's the what's that?
The British guy?
dan friesen
So, look, I mean, we're just seeing mountains of evidence piling up that Alex thinks that we're the bad guys and Putin is the good guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And...
jordan holmes
And hey, Alex, one thing to say to you.
Love it or leave it.
dan friesen
Seems very anti-American.
jordan holmes
He is not a big fan of America.
dan friesen
So, as we mentioned earlier, Alex got this interview with Diamond and Silk.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And here is a little excerpt where Alex Jones does not want to deal with the issues and wants to...
jordan holmes
Sound like characters from Steven Universe.
dan friesen
He wants to inject misogyny into this interview.
jordan holmes
Why?
dan friesen
Check this shit out.
jordan holmes
Let it go!
alex jones
So it's his policies.
It's why you ladies like him.
Now, don't lie to me.
Do you also think Donald's handsome?
unidentified
Well, listen, yes, he's handsome.
But he's going to be our next president, and that's what we're excited about.
And we want everybody, forget about this media biasness and this propaganda.
That's right.
Don't pay no attention.
Continue to stop for Trump, because that's what we're going to continue to do is stop for him until we get him in that White House.
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
So, you get a little sense of, like...
jordan holmes
Do you guys want to have sex with Trump?
Because that's the only reason that women have any...
Right.
Fuck you.
dan friesen
He brings it up twice, actually.
jordan holmes
Of course he does.
dan friesen
That's the first of two times he asks, are you hot for Trump?
Now, I'm not saying this in any dismissive way.
They really just keep saying, we stump for Trump, and just spouting catchphrases.
jordan holmes
Right, you gotta do it.
It's your policies that excite him.
Dan, name a Trump policy.
dan friesen
I got none.
None that excite me.
But be it as a mate, there's one lady who says all this stuff.
She yells like, we're going to stop for Trump.
He's going to be the next president.
And then the other lady just goes, that's right.
jordan holmes
Yeah, she's going to church.
dan friesen
She's a hype woman.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And Alex can't handle it.
It's a bad interview.
It's just he has them on to basically...
jordan holmes
Be black and stump for Trump.
dan friesen
Stump for Trump.
jordan holmes
Do both at the same time and you win points.
dan friesen
The idea that Alex Jones is having them on as a guest indicates to me that he recognizes that maybe they have an audience that he doesn't have and maybe can tap into it.
jordan holmes
And it legitimizes it to his old white audience so they don't feel guilt.
It's all about not feeling guilt.
So if you see two black women, you go, hey, I know all of these millions and millions of black people are telling me this.
But look, we've got some too, so it's not a racial thing.
dan friesen
Or, my position is somewhat that he's already behind the scenes or subconsciously decided that he's going to jump into Trump's camp.
And he's doing these things as test balloons.
He's doing them as putting his toe into the water.
Having these ladies who are so pro-Trump on, and knowing that you're not having an interview, you're just letting them...
jordan holmes
Does he challenge anything or ask them any questions?
dan friesen
He asks some questions, but they're more like softballs.
There's like little meatballs over the plate for them to yell.
jordan holmes
So there's really no even like, even his why do you support Trump is just allowing them to say we need to get him into the White House to bring prosperity.
dan friesen
He's going to bring jobs back, blah, blah, blah.
All the vague platitudes.
jordan holmes
No, how is he going to bring jobs back?
alex jones
No.
jordan holmes
No, of course not.
dan friesen
No.
And to me, that's an indication that he's already preparing his audience for the eventual twist that happens because I think he got a bunch of money at the money bomb.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But be that as it may, this might bolster my claims.
Here is Alex Jones invalidating things he's said about Trump in the past.
alex jones
Because I don't want people thinking I got money or something.
I mean, they have created such incredible class envy in this country, it makes my head spin.
And even people that are middle class now, Get upset if somebody is better at sports to them or better in business.
I mean, I would think you would admire that person and want to learn why they're successful.
But this class warfare, class envy system is the death of this country.
We've got to reverse it.
And so for all of Donald Trump's problems, one of the positive things is at least he's self-made.
He's got his problems, but at least he's self-made and he makes it okay to be successful again.
Because that's the type of Examples we need for children to believe they can become successful, because more rich people than a free market means more wealth for everybody else, more economy.
jordan holmes
That's patently untrue!
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
That's how it is now!
dan friesen
That's how we got in this mess.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
Why do you...
dan friesen
But, but, but, but, the reason that Alex Jones thinks that Trump is self-made is because they have similar backstories.
In the sense that Trump got bailed out over and over again by his super rich father and has an empire that's based on charade wherein he is money laundering through businesses and making it appear that he's successful.
Alex Jones only has a career because his dad bought him a radio show when he was younger by being his first sponsor and giving him the perception of being self-made.
And, you know, like, building up all this stuff.
And now he has an empire that's built on fake pills.
So, like, there is a pretty similar trajectory between the two of them, which I can understand Alex Jones sort of seeing and relating to and becoming enamored with.
I could see that.
But at the same time, Alex, in the past, has said that Trump is a con man.
He's said that he is a front man for a consortium on the East Coast.
He's mobbed up.
He doesn't think that Trump is self-made.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
That stuff that he's said already on his show within the last couple months before this, this is complete doubling back and contradicting things he's said in the past.
And to me, that is an indication that Alex has changed.
Something has changed.
It's not just, I'm not going to talk shit about Trump anymore.
It's, I'm going to lie, whereas in the past I said what I actually thought.
jordan holmes
I...
I have a counterthought.
dan friesen
I'm interested.
jordan holmes
Maybe it is just the fact that that's been repeated so many times.
dan friesen
It's possible.
jordan holmes
Like, Alex is a very suggestible, hypnotizable young man.
dan friesen
That's true.
jordan holmes
And that was Trump's narrative.
That's what was put into every piece.
Every single thing.
Even if it's like a CNN thing, it's like...
Trump is a self-made billionaire and all of this stuff, or he's a very good businessman, which is the narrative that they kept pushing.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's true.
jordan holmes
That's why people want to vote for him, is because they want a good businessman in the White House.
And so Alex just hears it repeated over and over again from places like Breitbart, from all of these places, and maybe he just...
dan friesen
And pro-Russia.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Who actively wanted him to win.
jordan holmes
Maybe he's just...
Dumb.
dan friesen
Well, he is.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Certainly.
jordan holmes
So maybe it's just he can only hold a certain amount of information about a certain topic in his head at any time.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And if you repeat stuff enough, you just push the old out.
dan friesen
It's possible.
I don't know.
I have my assertion.
You have yours.
We'll see what bears out over the course of, you know.
I'm not saying that yours is in any way, like, contradicted by what we learn two days from now or anything like that.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But I don't know.
We'll see.
We'll see.
But I'm going to skip this next clip because it doesn't matter.
Alex just lies about clean coal.
He says that every coal plant, you know, you see those buildings below them, they're scrubbers.
Everything is getting scrubbed, like, as if they're taking all of the fucking gases that are coming out, and there's just a chamois, and they're just wiping them down.
jordan holmes
It's a coal wash.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you know, you put in 50 cents, you go right through the cycle, clean coal now.
dan friesen
If you look into it at all, the clean coal stuff is a myth.
All of the attempts at making clean coal.
Power plants are wildly over budget, take much longer to create.
It is not a success.
The idea that every coal plant is...
Burning clean coal.
And everything you see coming out of the smokestacks, that's just water vapor.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's such bullshit.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Alex has to know that's not true.
jordan holmes
That's the nicotine is good for you from the 50s.
dan friesen
Right.
Or from John Boehner now.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
Good point.
dan friesen
Or Mike Pence.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
dan friesen
So this next...
jordan holmes
We have gone back to when they wanted to go back to.
dan friesen
Somewhat.
jordan holmes
I don't think anybody likes it.
dan friesen
Alex Jones, at the end of this show, on the 22nd, gets a call from a guy that is...
I had a roller coaster with this guy.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Because at the beginning of the call, he starts pointing out some very true things, such as Donald Trump's connection with Jeffrey Epstein, noted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
Also, he talks about Bayrock, the real estate organization that is clearly involved with Trump and Russian mobs.
jordan holmes
Right, and also the setting of Saved by the Bell.
dan friesen
Yes.
Then the call takes a weird turn and I can no longer support this guy.
And you'll see exactly where that happens as we...
Here we go.
alex jones
Well, you got the floor for three minutes.
Go ahead.
unidentified
Thank you.
There's an old expression.
Be careful of what you pray for.
You might just get it.
I think that's what we're heading for with Trump.
You can judge a man by a character by the company he keeps.
I'm sure you would agree with that.
And Jeffrey Epstein, I'm sure your listeners know who this man is.
He's a convicted sex offender, kept company with the likes of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, flew around an aircraft called the Lolita Express 727 all around the world.
Yeah, that should have been very obvious a lot sooner.
And these people are being implicated in a sex ring child, sex ring slavery investigation.
alex jones
I knew about the investigation.
Trump hangs out with those folks?
Wow.
unidentified
Also, Donald Trump's business partner is a gentleman in a consortium with Bayrock Group, LLC, a property group that's partnered with the Trump Organization to build a solo hotel condominium and a Trump Tower in Florida.
He was arrested by Turkish police who swooped down in helicopters on a yacht in the Mediterranean and found underage hookers on board.
So these are the types of people that Donald Trump is rubbing elbows with.
So I don't endorse either Ron Paul.
Rand Paul, any politician, I think they're all corrupt to the eyeballs.
jordan holmes
Alright.
I'm still here.
I didn't quite like that last part as much, but I'm still here.
dan friesen
Here is where it takes a hard turn.
jordan holmes
Oh boy.
dan friesen
This is jarring.
unidentified
As far as people trying to judge your character, Alex, with mainstream media like Salon and mainstream media, I really think...
Oh, no!
And the same thing with politics.
When you look at the politics, the U.S. Congress is primarily run by the American-Israeli Political Action Committee.
Let's just call a spade a spade here.
As far as technology is concerned, Boeing has an uninterruptible autopilot switch on their aircraft, which makes me think about 9-11.
alex jones
Yeah, both those aircraft that hit the towers did have that on them.
And then Bush even gave a speech and admitted that.
You know, there's no doubt a Jewish mafia that's leftist in many respects.
There's definitely a right-wing Jewish lobby as well.
I don't say it's one big group, but certainly of the big four lobbies, the AIPAC lobby is one of them.
And I have a serious problem with a foreign power manipulating our internal politics, be it Israel, be it England, be it Russia, be it China, anybody.
Be it Saudi Arabia.
So I hear what you're saying.
dan friesen
This is why people like David Duke and people who are anti-Semitic bigots count Alex Jones as one of their own.
These attacks against you in Salon and these places are just Zionist Jews.
And Alex doesn't push back on that at all.
jordan holmes
You're right.
There is a Jewish mafia on the left.
On the right, it's just a lobby.
It's a mafia on the left, though.
Everybody knows that on the left, it's mafias.
dan friesen
Wow!
This is why.
There is no difference between forces of anti-Semitism and Alex Jones' audience.
jordan holmes
Wow.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I don't like Donald Trump because of the Jews.
dan friesen
Well, I mean, he brought up other valid points, which is the problem.
That's why that's such a rollercoaster.
It's like, this guy is a fucking weirdo, asshole, anti-Semitic-oriented guy.
Jeffrey Epstein and Trump did hang out.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
They have had a history together, and Epstein is a fucking pedophile, and he's in prison.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
He was a billionaire who hung out with people like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
Absolutely.
You can't get around that.
Alex now only talks about the Bill Clinton part whenever he talks about Epstein, because it's his way of tarring the Clintons as a whole.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
No, no, no.
jordan holmes
Don't worry about the Trump part.
dan friesen
Completely forgetting about that being a piece of this.
Then talking about Bayrock and Soho Hotel and Felix Sater, these are legitimate pieces of what I hope and I think will become a very ugly investigation that will become public in the near future.
jordan holmes
And those are the consortiums that Alex himself was talking about earlier.
And now he's just like, hey, the Jews, I'm with you.
dan friesen
Yeah, so that's the problem with that call.
He brings up a couple really valid points and then invalidates himself entirely by blaming Zionist Jews for everything.
But Alex can't argue with it because it's really what he believes too, just under a different banner.
So we're going to skip the 23rd.
Because I just don't care.
jordan holmes
Okay, what happened the 23rd?
dan friesen
Well, at the end of the 22nd, he goes to a David Knight report.
He's out on the field covering the Pope.
And then the 23rd is largely just, there's a lot of Pope shit.
He's just railing on the Pope saying he's a devil and all this.
jordan holmes
It does make him feel better.
He probably had a headache that day.
dan friesen
He fakes crying at one point for the plight of the poor people in the world, which is really, it's pretty funny, but not necessary to go over.
He has a long interview with Peter Schiff.
The economist whose dad is in prison for not paying taxes.
jordan holmes
Never pay taxes.
dan friesen
It's a crime.
It's basically just an interview about how his dad is a political prisoner.
And they never bring up the fact that he didn't pay taxes on millions of dollars and millions of taxes that he owed.
And that he got a lot of other people arrested because he told them to do the same thing.
They just say, he's in prison because he wrote a book.
unidentified
Yeah, well, he had a copy of the Constitution in his pocket.
jordan holmes
Right.
Few hollow tips.
dan friesen
As a human, I feel bad for Peter Schiff and having to deal with his dad being sick in prison.
That is a human thing that is very sad.
But at the same time, I can't excuse him going on Alex Jones' show and using his dad's sickness in prison and clear crimes as propaganda fodder.
jordan holmes
Is he trying to get money?
dan friesen
No, he's trying to get the prison system investigated.
He's trying to cause all kinds of, like, we need to do an investigation.
jordan holmes
We would need to use taxpayer funds to do that.
dan friesen
There's a couple times he's...
I can't tell if he's joking about breaking his dad out of prison.
I can't quite tell.
It's a fine line.
Let's break him out.
Beyond that, Alex Jones asserts that the California drought is a false flag.
jordan holmes
Well, he does want to put him into a private prison.
He doesn't like the taxpayers paying for his dad.
That's what he hates.
dan friesen
Well, I guess that would be...
I mean, that is...
In line with his philosophies.
But you just glossed over me saying that California's drought is a false flag.
Because they're using weather weapons.
jordan holmes
Those just go right in through one ear and out through the other.
Oh, of course it's a false flag.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
Also, there's some talk about weather weapons.
And then Alex Jones asserts two things that are wild.
One is that Mel Gibson was set up because...
unidentified
How did he get set up?
jordan holmes
How did he get set up?
dan friesen
He doesn't go into the details.
jordan holmes
How do you set somebody up for an anti-Semitic rant?
dan friesen
After being pulled over for drunk driving.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Did they get him drunk?
dan friesen
They dosed him.
jordan holmes
They dosed him.
Okay.
dan friesen
But the reason is because...
jordan holmes
Cover your drinks, anti-Semites.
Then you might get told to talk.
dan friesen
The reason that they set him up was because he's critical of the Vatican.
It's like, all right, that's wild.
I'm not even going to engage with that.
The other thing Alex asserts is that Germany was the victim in World War I and II.
Which, if you're talking about just the mainstream population, maybe.
But if you're talking about the country as a whole and the governments, not so much.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
dan friesen
It doesn't smell good.
jordan holmes
That's not good.
I don't like that.
He's a very short step away from being a Holocaust denier.
dan friesen
No, we already went over it on the last episode.
jordan holmes
Like a full one.
Not like his half bullshit right here.
dan friesen
He's a Holocaust revisionist, and that's bad enough.
jordan holmes
That's true.
I did call those Holocaust deniers too, didn't I?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I did make that point.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, that's all fucked.
And then they do have another field report with Jakari Jackson and David Knight following the Pope around.
jordan holmes
That sounds like a fun buddy comedy.
dan friesen
It would be so boring.
jordan holmes
Do they go out to eat afterwards?
dan friesen
They must.
You know what's fun?
They can never appear on camera together because they're the other person's cameraman.
And so when they're doing live stuff, it's always like David Knight's there and he's like, we'll check in with Jakari later.
They're obviously at the same place.
jordan holmes
They're just switching the camera.
We'll check in with Jakari in the time it takes me to hand him my phone.
dan friesen
Glad you raised a million dollars for this, Alex.
You're doing great work.
So we get on to the 24th.
jordan holmes
I want to know what their account...
Do they stay in a motel together?
Do they have separate beds?
dan friesen
They bunk it.
jordan holmes
They bunk it.
Are they camping?
I want them to be camping.
dan friesen
Oh, that would be so great.
jordan holmes
Oh, man.
Like an easy writer, but the most boring version of it.
dan friesen
Just David Knight.
I don't even want to do an impression of his boring ass.
I want to give you a treat, because a lot of this is not very pleasant.
And so this next clip is my gift to you.
It is one of the few times that in these rebroadcast episodes I'm able to get access to, they keep in some of Alex Jones' karaoke.
jordan holmes
Ooh, yay!
dan friesen
So let's listen to him rocking out to Quiet Riot.
alex jones
You know, the fortune that I want is liberty and freedom in a system based on empowering humanity.
The globalists want inverted power over people to dumb them down.
I'm in the camp that wants the power to be free, the power to have the globalist off my back.
dan friesen
Wait for it.
alex jones
Listen to that guitar.
It's Randy Rose.
unidentified
Why are you making this song creepy?
alex jones
Boehner's a weeper.
jordan holmes
Why did you just make that song so creepy?
alex jones
I don't know.
Sometimes I see something so beautiful I get a tear in my eye or something so ugly I do as well.
So I guess I am a...
I guess I am a weeper.
I don't really weep, though.
I just get tears in my eyes.
Bang your head!
jordan holmes
Come in on the right, Pete!
God damn it!
alex jones
I better stop it right now.
I apologize.
I'm going to quit right there.
dan friesen
I love that.
First of all, we've not done a good enough job pointing out how often he apologizes.
Whenever he does anything fun.
jordan holmes
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that.
dan friesen
I'm sorry, I was interesting for a minute.
That's just great.
And I want to be totally clear.
I didn't turn up the audio.
That was the person on the board in the studio.
Oh, definitely.
And the parts where he's not talking, he's just rocking.
He's banging his head.
It's in the song title.
So, on the 24th, there's a lot of stuff.
I mean, it's more, like, I'm telling you, this week is all Pope.
It is all anti-Pope stuff.
That is mostly what he's into.
He talks about how, okay, so when the Pope came, a young Hispanic girl came up to the Pope and gave him a letter asking that her family not be deported and urging, like, clemency about immigrants, what have you.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Obviously, it's probably a photo op of some sort.
I mean, even us, we don't think that there's necessarily that is a genuine moment.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
But at the same time, it's beautiful.
And I don't think it's something nefarious.
But Alex Jones does.
He thinks it's globalists and they're pushing open borders propaganda.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And the globalist pope is in on it.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
And what have you.
jordan holmes
It's interesting to note that he prefers the...
The Nazi Pope.
Right.
He definitely preferred the Nazi youth being Pope.
dan friesen
And they argue that the only reason that he got out and we got this Pope Francis in was because of the pedophile blackmail against the Nazi Pope.
jordan holmes
Well, that's why Sebastian Gorka is going to be the next Pope after the cool Pope.
dan friesen
I would assume so.
Certainly Nazi lineage.
Beyond that, he talks about how Edward Snowden's a hero and Trump is wrong about him, which is interesting.
unidentified
Agreed.
jordan holmes
I appreciate that.
dan friesen
I withhold judgment, but I generally agree.
He also talks about how the kid who came to school made a clock.
You remember that?
jordan holmes
Yes, I do recall that.
And it was a bomb.
dan friesen
It's a false flag, my man.
jordan holmes
How could that be a false flag?
dan friesen
Because it wasn't a bomb.
jordan holmes
I know it wasn't a bomb!
dan friesen
But he made it look like a bomb so the government...
unidentified
It didn't look like...
dan friesen
But he made it look like a bomb so that the police would have to get involved, and then it would become this PR stunt that people could demonize the anti-immigrant forces with this publicity stunt.
jordan holmes
That's just a bad plan.
dan friesen
It's a bad plan, and it's a long way to go.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
There are so many easier ways to demonize the anti-immigrant people, such as by using their actions in words.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Also, Alex Jones claims that he's going to prove on this show that weather weapons are real.
jordan holmes
Excellent.
dan friesen
And that he's right about all this stuff.
He's like, we talk about it all the time and I'm going to lay it out.
So he has a guest at the end of the show named Dave Wigington.
And I haven't kept any of this in because it is the lamest fucking interview I've ever heard.
There's no sources of stuff.
There's just vague mentions of chemtrails and stuff that we've already discussed that Alex is lying about.
So I don't even care, but I do love it when he's like, I'm going to prove it.
Right.
And then doesn't.
jordan holmes
And then does nothing of the sort.
dan friesen
He claims that the globalists...
jordan holmes
I really want weather weapons to exist.
dan friesen
He claims that the globalists have been able to create, steer, and destroy hurricanes dating back to Vietnam when, of course, we were fighting beetle beings.
Beetles.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Beetle beings.
The tet species.
unidentified
Let's not mix up Alex Jones' bullshit and someone else's.
dan friesen
That's Robert David...
No, that wasn't even Robert David Steele.
jordan holmes
No, that was our girl Carrie Cassidy and her source.
The hypnotized...
Yes.
dan friesen
So now we get to this.
Alex Jones, in pursuit of his attacking the Pope, has an interview with Leo Zagami.
This is the first time I believe...
jordan holmes
Love Zagami.
dan friesen
I believe this is the first time Zagami's actually been on the show.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
We've talked about him before because of...
I don't know why we talked about him.
He popped up in some other...
Who cares?
jordan holmes
The sex rumors.
dan friesen
Oh, that's right.
jordan holmes
The Cardinals having the big sex orgy.
dan friesen
But that's in present day.
That's in 2017.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's in 2017?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So this is pre-Cardinals having orgies.
dan friesen
Yes, yes.
That was where my brain was having a difficult time.
When was that?
jordan holmes
We are jumping back and forth in time.
This is why, you know...
dan friesen
We need our constant.
And that is that Alex Jones is wrong in both timelines.
jordan holmes
This is why H.G. Wells had some struggles later on in life.
dan friesen
Science fiction is just the fantasies of men.
Anyway.
That's an Alex Jones quote?
unidentified
Yeah, I know.
jordan holmes
I know.
Fantastic.
dan friesen
Shakespeare.
So, we've dropped that bit.
jordan holmes
He hasn't said Shakespeare too much.
dan friesen
That's true.
So, he has Leo Zagami on, and one quote that Zagami has is really difficult, and that is that he's saying that everything that he has and everything he knows is documented, but he is a Vatican insider.
And so he can get these documents that are very difficult to get, which is very convenient.
jordan holmes
Wait.
They are documented.
He doesn't have them.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
But he can get them.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Has he seen them?
dan friesen
Yes.
Allegedly.
Because he's such an insider.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
dan friesen
Now, I'm going to play this clip of Leo Zagami explaining the beginnings.
Of his waking up to the truth.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
dan friesen
And I believe, if you listen carefully, you'll see that maybe he's not on the level.
And maybe Alex Jones just believes people who agree with what he believes in and have an accent.
I think that there's something...
There's a little credibility that Leo Zagami gets because...
jordan holmes
It is kind of sexy.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So you listen to this.
alex jones
So briefly, tell us about yourself, how you woke up.
Then, are they getting stronger?
Are they getting weaker?
Who runs the Vatican?
leo zagami
Well, actually, how I woke up, you are probably one of the reasons why in the year 2000, 2001, I started to wonder what was really going on behind the scenes.
Because even amongst that, among the network of Masonic network and of other secret societies, when we saw the Bohemian Grove, It created a debate.
I remember myself discussing in Lodge, in London, your documentary, and actually facing some of the masters there and telling them, what is this?
unidentified
I mean, how is possible to participate in something like this?
Or that world leaders are involved with something like this?
And, of course, this inspiration that you gave me at one point put me in front of the reality of what I had in these lodges, in these secret societies that I was involved in, and I decided that I no longer wanted to be involved, especially when I discovered some of their secrets.
dan friesen
Ooh, I discovered some of their secrets!
So, look, look.
jordan holmes
That'd be real close and stereotypical.
dan friesen
Look.
jordan holmes
I discovered some of the secrets!
dan friesen
I didn't mean for it to be that, but whatever.
So, look, Leo Zagami, his whole backstory that he has fleshed out on, like, Project Camelot interviews and his own biography is that he was a high-ranking member of the Illuminati.
He was a part of the real, powerful Illuminati.
And on Alex Jones' show, he's saying...
jordan holmes
2000, 2001, I started listening to you, Alex!
dan friesen
I saw your bullshit documentary about Bohemian Grove, and I was like, hold on.
jordan holmes
You are part of the Illuminati!
unidentified
What the fuck?
jordan holmes
The Illuminati didn't tell you?
You said you were a high-ranking member of the Illuminati.
Are they keeping stuff away from you, Zagami?
dan friesen
That's the problem.
That's where people get slippery and they're like, everything's compartmentalized.
Left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
It's like, Alex Jones told the truth about an organization I was a major part of.
jordan holmes
That's why he doesn't want to be part of that organization anymore.
dan friesen
I mean, he's lying about his past, first of all.
jordan holmes
He's definitely lying about Alex.
dan friesen
I think he's buttering him up a little bit.
jordan holmes
Oh, absolutely.
dan friesen
Because he realizes this is an outlet where I can boost my book sales and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
I'm getting more.
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
I think Alex Jones doesn't realize how many of his guests are opportunistic assholes who are using him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But be that as it may, Leo Zagami saying that is so invalidating of any of his positions.
Like, you are the reason I woke up?
Fuck you, Zagami.
So anyway, they just talk shit on the Pope a bunch.
jordan holmes
All the stuff that he said to Alex about what he...
That is a cursory Wikipedia search.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
You know, like, oh, I know that you started a little bit before then.
I saw on the first biography page, he came to prominence because of the Bohemian Grove.
Done.
Done and done.
Now I can just...
Roll from there.
dan friesen
Can I pause it?
jordan holmes
He did slightly more research than Alex did on him.
dan friesen
Can I pause it an alternative?
jordan holmes
What's that?
dan friesen
I think it's entirely possible that Leo Zagami, the human, was just a guy in Italy and did see Alex Jones' documentary in 2000 and started to become weird.
And then he concocted this backstory that he was a high-ranking Illuminati member in order to gain credibility within the worldview that Alex had exposed him to.
Because there was the burgeoning internet community of distrustful weirdos and conspiracy theorists.
jordan holmes
No, it is entirely possible that he could have found Alex at that time.
dan friesen
Right, no, and that this entire backstory of being a Vatican insider and all this...
Is just the reaction to seeing Alex Jones' documentary.
So that part might actually be true.
It's impossible for us to know, but that is a story that I think fits the Occam's razor.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think it's just a matter of timing.
Is it that he finds out about Alex Jones in order to go on his show and talk shit, or does he create his entire story out of what he thought he saw in the Bohemian Grove?
Was it a self-generated thing?
Was he just hallucinating the whole thing?
Or do you think he's completely out and out lying?
dan friesen
I will tell you what I don't believe is possible, and that is what he just said.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't think that's possible.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
But be that as it may, we've got to move along to this next clip, Jordan, and this is just more evidence that Alex Jones is pretty into Putin.
jordan holmes
I've studied Putin.
alex jones
He's obviously a hardcore guy, but he's trying to promote family, trying to promote having kids.
They don't put flora in the water.
His best friend's a newscaster.
I'm going to skip this break.
Last one of the day.
dan friesen
Propaganda.
alex jones
His best friend's a newscaster.
It basically sounds like my show.
And I've been told by the head of RT America years ago, the State Department didn't want me on there anymore, which is fine, it's not that big of a deal, that they were upset that I was on there and that basically the directors of RT, both in Russia and here, are huge listeners.
I was told this by their producers, by their top people, and told this in L.A. I'm just going to leave it at that, where they have one of their main offices.
And that the Russian government actually watches this show.
Now imagine you're told this.
It's not a way to flatter me or get me to support them.
I'm not into the Russians.
They don't need me.
I'm just promoting anti-sovereignty, anti-globalism.
jordan holmes
It doesn't get more obviously what that is!
That is exactly what it is!
dan friesen
Alex doesn't understand the idea of cultivation of assets and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
How does he not know it?
dan friesen
It's right out of the Russian spy playbook.
jordan holmes
It's right out of just...
My playbook to become friends with people.
Get booked on shows.
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
That's how this podcast started.
unidentified
Yeah, exactly.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I wanted you to think I was cool.
unidentified
That was it.
dan friesen
Alex does not get at all, again, like Zagami manipulating him in order to bolster his credentials.
He doesn't understand that the Russian people, the Russian propagandists are doing that with him.
It reached its logical conclusion with Alexander Dugan.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
Well, he knows it's not that they're trying to butter him up.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Because they said, we're not trying to butter you up.
dan friesen
Well, you've got to take him at face value.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
I can't know what lies in the hearts of men.
jordan holmes
Putin said he didn't interfere in the election, so obviously it must be true.
Can't imagine a guy like Putin lying.
dan friesen
So anyway, this goes on.
alex jones
It allows Russia to continue on.
I mean, I want Russia to be there.
I want America to be there.
I want diversity in countries.
I want sovereignty.
I'm just a patriot for humanity, a patriot for sovereignty, a patriot for due process, a patriot for firewalls, to tyranny.
That's what countries are.
jordan holmes
Yeah, those are all belonging.
alex jones
Six, seven years ago, I thought, oh, you're just wanting me to be flattered so I support you.
They're like, no, no, we're not.
And now I've seen...
These Russians were in awe every time they came here.
Then I've seen now, out of Russian television, it's like it's Alex Jones on Russian TV.
It looks like the Russians might have caught an anti-New World order bug.
I know that Putin started secretly meeting with Alexander Shultz and Nietzsche in a lot, reportedly apologized to him.
Now he's become a big Orthodox Christian, like, underground, and thinks he's got to, you know, save Christendom.
Or is that PR bull?
Is this how God works in mysterious ways?
dan friesen
What the fuck?
jordan holmes
I look at Russian news and it's becoming a lot like InfoWars is not a statement I like to hear.
dan friesen
No, and then he's taking all this stuff from Russian official outlets that glorify Putin, that say he's a secret Christian and he's trying to defend Christendom.
This is insane.
This is totally nuts.
And Alex believes all of it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Well, they said nice things about him.
dan friesen
Right.
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
If you say nice things about Alex, that means you're on the level so Alex can trust whatever it is you say.
He's a mix of a wide-eyed, idiotic child and a complete and utter narcissist.
So he'll believe anything so long as it...
Makes him look nice.
dan friesen
We should flatter him and see if he'll retweet us.
jordan holmes
Oh, I bet he would.
dan friesen
We should try that.
Yeah.
I'm going to try it.
But anyway, yeah, that's crazy.
And that's out-and-out regurgitation of Russian propaganda.
So Alex, he rails about people saying that he's a Russian agent.
I don't think anyone believes that.
But what you did just there is what people are talking about.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's just out-and-out pro-Putin Russian propaganda that is not based in reality.
Now, we're done with the 24th.
24th is behind us.
We move on to September 25th when I believe Alex Jones' manic episode begins in earnest.
And I think what kicked it off is that on the 25th it was announced that John Boehner was stepping down as the speaker.
So, Alex thinks that he did it.
jordan holmes
Alex thinks that Alex...
Defeated John Boehner.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Single-handedly.
dan friesen
Well, not single-handedly because a couple months back he had a guy named Walter Jones on who is a member of Congress who was trying to vacate the chair and trying to get John Boehner out.
Alex had him on the show.
They did an interview.
And ergo, Alex takes responsibility and thinks that, hey, we did it.
He is becoming a little bit into his power.
He's starting to think that he has...
There's delusions of grandeur that are going on.
Not recognizing that I think John Boehner probably smelled what was in the air and realized he could make millions of dollars as a fucking lobbyist.
jordan holmes
With far less stress.
dan friesen
And he didn't want to be a part of the coming Trump storm, probably.
jordan holmes
Smart move.
dan friesen
If you really look at the people who have come out of this the best, Boehner is up there.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
Because no one hates him anymore.
jordan holmes
Nope.
dan friesen
And they should.
jordan holmes
We've moved on.
Yeah.
We got bigger fish to fry than you, orange monster.
dan friesen
Ryan and McConnell are way worse right now.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we traded one orange monster for a worse one.
dan friesen
It is an incredibly smart move if all you're doing is looking out for profit and self-preservation to have left when he did.
And he did.
He left.
Now, Alex pitches it as he was getting pressure from Walter Jones and his cadre of weirdos within the house and that Alex Jones, by pushing it, On the Liberty program that is Infowars, that they made it happen, which is a little bit wild.
But what actually is motivating it even more is that Alex Jones has gotten a tip from somebody that I don't believe is credible.
And it's feeding into his victim mentality as well as his sort of messiah complex.
And I'll let him spell it out in this next clip.
alex jones
I caught myself this morning after I did some elliptical lifting weights absolutely enthusiastic and happy and proud of myself and satisfied to a degree that I have never been.
dan friesen
I want to just stop right there for a second.
jordan holmes
That's a weird way to start.
dan friesen
I want to stop right there for just one second and explain that that's what happens when you exercise.
That's just endorphins.
I look like a bag of trash, but I ride my bike for an hour and I go look at myself in the mirror covered in sweat and I'm like, goddammit, I'm doing it.
That's usually what happens when you don't exercise and you exercise.
So anyway, Alex thinks it's something bigger.
jordan holmes
He's figured it out.
alex jones
I felt so manly, so honorable, so good that my conscience Was giving me a type of energy I've never felt in my life.
jordan holmes
Is that a thing the conscience does?
dan friesen
No.
alex jones
Because when I got some of the news in the last year, and more news yesterday confirming it, that there's a major FBI white-collar crime task force directly under Obama and the Justice Department, the Attorney General, with upwards of 20 people working 15 hours a day to find out some way to put me in prison.
And to shut down Infowars.
dan friesen
Let me just say that that is a waste of money.
Yeah.
There's no way, even if Obama was concerned with Alex Jones, there's no way that they're paying the salary of 20 fucking agents to work around the clock, overtime, 15 hours a day, in order for years, trying to bring down Infowars.
jordan holmes
That's time and a half.
dan friesen
Just give us a couple grand a month and we'll do it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I was going to say, you don't need that.
You don't need a lot of research.
dan friesen
No, you just need someone who's listening.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You just need someone disseminating what he's actually saying.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And that will take him down eventually.
jordan holmes
You would think.
dan friesen
Because he's going to bring himself down.
Everyone knows that.
Obama wouldn't even fucking swat at Alex if he was a fly on the wall.
That's so crazy.
But this is the Delusions of Granger.
This is the Manic episode coming out.
Someone told him that, and he's decided that this guy is credible.
In the same way that Leo Zagami tells him all this shit about the Pope, and he's like, oh, well, you're on the same page as me.
You must be right.
Or a caller calls in and tells him something.
It becomes gospel.
jordan holmes
Well, you can measure yourself by the enemies that you have, and if the president is spending all of those people, all of that man hour onto you, that gives you that...
Sense of grandeur, of course.
So that is another one of those things where if somebody tells him that, that builds into his own legend.
That makes him feel good, so he'll believe you.
dan friesen
And it is communicated onto his audience that you're a part of this, too.
You're a part of this really dangerous movement.
Like the Proud Boys.
It's all bullshit.
jordan holmes
Like the Proud Boys.
dan friesen
Right.
So he goes on, and this is delusional.
alex jones
I knew launching a TV network that's going to grow slowly and just be a new avenue in their dinosaur brains would really freak them out and scare them, and it certainly has.
But thinking about my forebearers, thinking about the founding fathers, thinking about the founders of Texas, thinking about my ancestors in England and the things they did, I just really, in my gut, in my spirit, understood that I was beginning to approach the stairs.
To their ranks.
And that's the most valuable thing in the world.
It isn't fancy cars or big houses or hot tubs or Caribbean beaches that matter in the final equation.
It is being honorable.
It is standing up for what's right.
It's being a good person.
And it is upholding your family name.
dan friesen
Okay.
Alright.
Whatever.
Like he really thinks he's beginning this hero's journey.
He thinks that he is like He's wielding Excalibur, and he's going on this adventure, climbing the stairs to legend.
Like, that's crazy.
jordan holmes
Well, that's what everybody feels like when they start their own independent TV network.
dan friesen
That's what you feel when you're in a manic episode.
jordan holmes
If we started our own independent TV network, I think I know exactly how I would feel like that.
dan friesen
I would feel overwhelmed with details.
I would feel very nervous.
jordan holmes
I would feel like a founding father.
dan friesen
This is the same thing that a couple months back Alex Jones was spouting when he had that night-long vision dream.
jordan holmes
Oh yeah, that's right.
dan friesen
This is where we can sort of get a sense of when his brain chemistry goes off.
We can get these sort of, you know, it's not exact science and we're diagnosing him not as doctors or any ethical way.
jordan holmes
Oh, none.
dan friesen
But you see discrete changes in his brain state.
And this is a hallmark.
This Delusions of Grandeur pops up about around, as best I can tell, every 40 days or 80 days if he wasn't freaking out when he was in Europe.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So I'm going to keep track of it.
I'm going to see what happens about 40 days after this.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And I'll report back if my assessment is correct.
And if so...
jordan holmes
And if he doesn't have an episode within about a month or so, we know he's pregnant.
Right.
dan friesen
Or we just have to recalibrate our time frame.
Because then the Europe trip really comes into the equation.
But I'm telling you, this is manic shit, real hard.
And it spills into this next clip, which I think Alex Jones is trying out a new rhetorical style, a new manner of speaking.
That I think he associates with...
I would say he probably associates it with Malcolm X. I would say that he's probably trying to mirror revolutionary speakers.
And it doesn't work.
jordan holmes
Your Che Guevara's and whatnot?
dan friesen
It just doesn't work.
But I'll let you decide.
alex jones
And I can really say I am free.
I knew when I crossed the threshold, bullhorning Bilderberg in 2006, and they sent Richard Holbrook out when I did it.
I was passing a line to another level of opportunity for freedom, but also danger.
And I loved every minute of it.
And I passed other lines as well.
But launching a TV network that'll take years to grow is only a sign to them to remind them of the indomitable human spirit that refuses to submit.
It only reminds them of human empowerment.
dan friesen
I want to pause right there.
Is that the human spirit that refuses to submit?
jordan holmes
Gives a good raise of the fist to God.
dan friesen
But he's also directly quoting himself from Waking Life.
jordan holmes
Really?
dan friesen
Yeah.
That is a line for line, his speech in Waking Life.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Which is kind of like his past self coming out in his present self, which is super weird because they're very different people.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But be that as it may.
alex jones
Fact that...
We don't cower in fear to the system.
They can't stand that.
And so they know full well, if word gets to me of what's going on, I'll come on air and talk about it.
And they think you're cowards and that you're then going to roll over in fear and not become involved because, oh my gosh, the big bad government might come get you.
Let me explain something.
We've gone from 1 in 25,000 to 1 in 58 with autism.
The CDC is saying by 2025, one in three, maybe one in two.
dan friesen
Nope.
alex jones
They already came for us.
They came for our kids.
They already killed 55 million babies.
jordan holmes
Autistic people are still alive.
alex jones
They already came for us.
jordan holmes
And they're still good people.
alex jones
They've been putting fluoride in the water for 60 years.
Massive IQ reductions.
Massive cancer increases.
Harvard even admits it.
They already came for us.
We already got pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, cancer of the...
Bladder, cancer of the kidneys up multi-thousand percent.
They already came for us.
They already drove down our wages, shut off our power plants, got rid of our jobs, destroyed our culture, and now we're on the news again.
This time, mainstream British newspapers legitimizing pedophilia yesterday.
jordan holmes
They already came for us.
alex jones
Pedophilia on TV as if it's good.
jordan holmes
They already came for us!
alex jones
They already got us!
We're already slaves!
dan friesen
See that?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's pathetic.
jordan holmes
Yeah, the repetition right there?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's a speech pattern that is foreign to Alex.
jordan holmes
Oh yeah, no, that's no good.
dan friesen
He imagines his entire audience being like, yeah!
Every time he said they already came for us.
unidentified
Of course!
Of course!
dan friesen
He's imagining himself- Preach law!
He thinks he's at a pulpit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's basically what's going on there.
It's delusional.
And he's citing just complete misused statistics.
Like, none of that is real.
And he's misinterpreting articles mainlining pedophilia.
Like, everything is a lie.
They've already came for us in my bizarre conception where I twist everything.
It's so bizarre, but I love it.
Like, in terms of me being an Alex Jones researcher, and, like, I love the little things that are interesting.
And when Alex Jones flips his speech pattern like that, that's crazy to me.
Because I've been listening to so much...
Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
He never talks like that.
jordan holmes
If anybody knows when he changes his speech pattern, it's you.
dan friesen
He never talks like that.
Using these tricks of repetition.
It's almost like Chris Rock's stand-up, even.
Like coming back to this thesis statement that you drift off of and come back to.
It's a really powerful way to speak.
jordan holmes
It's a great rhetorical trick.
dan friesen
It doesn't work for Alex very well.
jordan holmes
If you can wield it.
dan friesen
It also is really important that you have an audience.
Like, that responds to it.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
A call-in response does usually require a response.
dan friesen
Right.
Like, if you're some, you know, preacher, that repetition allows for people to cheer.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And if you're Chris Brock, using it as a thesis statement that you repeat, it allows you to reset.
After everybody laughs, you say the thesis, and it reminds people what the joke is about.
What the bigger chunk is about.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's a skeleton that you hang all of these things off.
dan friesen
Alex is talking to them alone in a fucking studio.
It doesn't work.
If he had a caller on the line, it might be better.
Because at least they could be like, mm-hmm.
Or if he was doing it while fucking Diamond and Silk were on the phone during that interview, I think they would be offended.
jordan holmes
Are you talking like that because of us?
Is that what's going on here?
dan friesen
No, I apologize, man.
jordan holmes
I think you might be racist, Alex.
dan friesen
Man, I apologize.
It's not a race thing.
I'm in a manic episode.
I'm just crazy.
I'm just losing my mind.
jordan holmes
So do you think that change in speech pattern is...
Emotional rather than kind of calculated there?
dan friesen
I think so.
I think it's the spirit got good to him in terms of thinking he took down John Boehner.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then thinking that he's about to have the FBI crash down on him with 20 agents that have been researching him for two years.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
All this bullshit.
I think that it's a lot of that, like, and he exercised that morning.
So, you know.
jordan holmes
That's right.
dan friesen
He's got the testosterone flowing.
It's in there.
What is it?
The dopamine receptors are kicking.
You know, he's in a little bit of a euphoric state.
jordan holmes
It's kind of a struggle for me to listen to this, because I recognize so much of myself there, and it's like, oh, fuck.
Why am I empathizing with Alex again?
dan friesen
I know, it's tough.
It's tough, but when you look at him as a human, there are things that you're forced to empathize with.
That you may not want to.
But that does not excuse any of his lies or his beliefs that are bullshit.
jordan holmes
No, I've managed through all of my manic episodes, I have never once told people that vaccines cause autism.
dan friesen
Or rewritten the Civil War.
jordan holmes
Yeah, and I've never...
The thing about him, especially in that little rant right there, is...
He is dehumanizing autistic people.
Like, they came for us.
Like, autism is a punishment.
Like, autism is...
Like, autistic people are still people, and the vast majority of them are great people.
dan friesen
And totally functional.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, they're wonderful.
dan friesen
Yeah.
He has a really...
Twisted sort of belief about, you know, soft kills and what have you.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's not worth getting into.
jordan holmes
Neurodiversity is also something worth celebrating there.
dan friesen
It's not worth getting into here, though, his stupid beliefs about it, because, I mean, we'd just be here all day if we want to talk about everything that he has wrong about vaccines.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
But be that as it may, he gets into this next thing.
He has an interview with Walter Jones, and before that, he plays John Boehner's speech.
He goes live to CNN or whatever that's covering Boehner's resignation speech, and he does a little bit of a mystery science theater thing along with it.
And he says this that I think is telling.
alex jones
Well, that's all an act.
unidentified
The recent campaigns He probably still indict him down the road just to scare everybody.
He would do this, that he would do that.
And he embraced that.
alex jones
The problem was...
I can't listen anymore.
Turn that person off, please.
There's some mummy up there doing the interviews.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't mean it.
I'm turning into Donald Trump here.
I'm sure it's a great reporter.
I don't know.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
I'm turning into Donald Trump here.
jordan holmes
By making fun of a reporter.
dan friesen
A female reporter.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
At least it wasn't a disabled reporter.
dan friesen
But that is a slight recognition, I think, on his part, cracking through his insanity to be like, oh, I'm starting to see myself in him a lot more.
Which is trouble.
But, I mean, we know the inevitable outcome of what happens.
I think that might be a part of it.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alex's ego.
So here's another paranoid fantasy that he has about how much the government cares about what he does.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And it's manic as hell.
alex jones
I mean, that's how corrupt this country is.
You really think 96% of people the feds and died are really guilty?
I mean, you really believe that?
No, about half of them are completely innocent.
There's major studies.
A third of people on death row didn't do it.
DNA testing now shows.
I remember up in Round Rock, the prosecutor in Williamson County knew he was sending Michael Mortensen to prison and knew he was innocent.
The guy had no criminal record.
His wife had been killed.
Why would she?
I don't know why they do it.
They just get off on putting good people in prison.
I couldn't think of a more demonic thing to do, other than, like, sacrifice children or something.
jordan holmes
Yep, yep, that is more demonic.
alex jones
There's a lot of people in government that aren't corrupt, but they're, like, in different divisions.
So I'll only raise that to show we are big time.
They know we're big time.
They've tried to assassinate my name, everything.
They failed.
So they're moving the ballgame.
And to the FBI's credit, they were ordered by the White House, according to multiple sources, two years ago to dig up something, and they couldn't.
So then it went to the FTC and back to the FBI, and I'm two years into this, and I just, will they follow orders?
I don't know.
They've got a group out of D.C. reportedly will follow whatever order they're given.
So whatever.
I'm not afraid.
It'd be like saying, are you afraid some kidnappers are going to come?
I mean, they're kidnappers.
They're bad people.
I mean, I'm not going to live in fear of it.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
I know this, and this is on record, I'm not scared of a SWAT team raid or something like that, even though that's what they're talking about doing, just for the added media effect.
Okay.
jordan holmes
Why?
alex jones
We're not going to resist any of it.
We're going to sit there and just...
Be the martyrs we are politically and the whole thing will come out.
dan friesen
See, that is just him in recognition of his...
If you know his history, it becomes so much more.
He's fantasizing that it's going to be another Waco if they come.
The FBI is going to come and SWAT team him.
jordan holmes
Of course, for the media effect.
You know how the media...
You know how great that worked out for the government last time?
That optic of burning all of those people alive?
dan friesen
But that's what he's evoking.
That's what he's doing, because he knows that his audience is also very pro-Branch Davidian, and what have you, and anti-government in terms of that.
Also, on this show, he flat out says, essentially, that he knows that he's leading an anti-government group.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
He compares himself.
He's like, you don't think I know what I'm doing?
unidentified
George Washington knew what he was doing, and I'm no different.
dan friesen
That sort of thing.
It's like, oh boy.
jordan holmes
Oh, boy.
dan friesen
You're leading a revolution.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But your revolution is just anti-government.
That's fucked up.
jordan holmes
I think those researchers are done.
I think they just got there.
I think they just got it.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
Let's get them in here on inciting violence.
dan friesen
We can take off early this Friday.
jordan holmes
It's a good thing we've been bleeding the government dry for a couple of years.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Look, you've got to get your paycheck.
jordan holmes
Yeah, right?
dan friesen
So this is Friday's episode, and that's where our sort of analysis of stuff goes.
And I've been remiss in pointing out that every day that we've been covering, they've been going to Jakari Jackson and David Knight following the Pope around.
And Alex Jones has been talking so much wild shit about the Pope.
He is making every show, the focal point of it is Popeye.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
The Pope gets his way, and they put in these carbon taxes, which, nonsense.
If the Pope is successful, a billion people will die, based on Lord Moncton's analysis, which is like, I don't believe any of these.
Any of the little parts are a mess, and then you bring it into a hole, it's a huge mess.
jordan holmes
If they implement a carbon tax, a billion people will die.
That's some big math.
dan friesen
Lord Moncton is good at math.
jordan holmes
May have carried a one.
dan friesen
He is a lord.
jordan holmes
May have carried a one wrong.
dan friesen
But my point is that Alex Jones has for a week been shitting on the Pope.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Then on Sunday...
jordan holmes
Is it just for shock?
Or just like it's a big enough target and he's just got nothing else to talk about?
dan friesen
It's hard to tell.
jordan holmes
Like, why would you shit on the Pope that much?
That seems too far, especially for his audience, because they can't possibly care that much about the fucking Pope.
dan friesen
Well, it's because the Pope has said that we have an obligation to care for the poor and the...
jordan holmes
Oh yeah, nothing pisses off people more than that.
dan friesen
And the immigrants who are fleeing a certain death, we have an obligation to help them.
He has advocated for positions like that.
Alex Jones interprets that as he believes in one world government, open borders, all this stuff.
So he's just become a focal head of globalism.
He's like a globalist god in Alex's conception.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Because you can pin everything back to the Pope.
Like, all of his narratives can all be thrown into the Pope.
dan friesen
Somewhat, yeah.
And then you add on the...
Actual, true history of child abuse that exists within the Vatican.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
And you can pin all that on him.
And Leo Zagami, of course, says that that is the case, and that's why this Jesuit has become installed as Pope.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because he has pedophile blackmail on everybody.
unidentified
Of course.
dan friesen
So you have all of that wrapped up into this.
But listen to this clip from September 27th.
That's the Sunday show.
The rest of the Sunday show is unnotable.
It's a bunch of nonsense.
He talks about Lord Moncton.
David Knight and Jakari Jackson make a little pop-up appearance.
unidentified
We're here at the world's tallest tree.
dan friesen
Might as well be, quite frankly.
Might as well be David and Jakari on the road.
Alex Jones talks about George Soros.
And he talks about how everyone says he would have been killed by the Nazis.
And like, hey.
If I were in that position, I'd say pull the trigger, man.
And Alex would be very unfair.
But even that is him recognizing that as a hiding Jew during the Holocaust, George Soros had no ability to buck the system at all.
Alex Jones is recognizing that, and he's still lying about what George Soros did.
Because he's still saying that he rounded up Jews and stuff like that, which he absolutely didn't.
He bases all of this on a 60 Minutes interview that has nothing to do with this stuff.
It's all bullshit.
But be that as it may, I think it's particularly disgusting that he recognizes that it would be certain death for George Soros to do anything out of line.
And he's like, yeah, pussy, I would have taken death.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
All right, Alex, you're a liar, first of all.
And second of all, how dare you?
How dare you insult someone's decision?
In that kind of a situation.
The only way you can do that is if you kind of deny the Holocaust and it was mostly about Jews that didn't pay ransoms.
That's really the only way you can do that and not think of yourself as a fucking horrible person.
Anyway, this clip from the show is he has an interview with a guy named Joe Bannister who Alex presents him as a guy who the government tried to shut down his free speech.
I don't know his whole history.
I don't really care.
It's not important to what's going on.
The two of them have an interview, and the Pope comes up.
And Joe Bannister has a pretty decent argument and a pretty decent position, and then Alex makes an incredibly startling admission.
unidentified
Now, I think that there are certain messages that Pope Francis puts out there, talking about the Beatitudes and all kinds of things, defending the unborn.
You know, that I happen to agree with.
But again, it's not like Catholics have to be lockstep about these other matters.
They call them prudential matters.
You use prudence, prudential judgment to determine, well, what is really the safest and the most just way to deal with these issues?
So, anyway, that's why I...
alex jones
That's a key point.
Maybe the media is taking statements he makes and only taking those out of context to misrepresent overall what's being said.
Because I can get really nasty and I want to be fair about it.
So I'll have to investigate that.
dan friesen
He just straight up admitted that he doesn't know anything about the Pope.
All he knows is stories that he's read, and as we have clearly demonstrated, he has a fucking bad media diet.
He reads stories on Breitbart, Zero Hedge, and pro-Russian propaganda sites that are critical of the Pope and these one-world government stances.
A week of shitting on the Pope.
unidentified
It culminates with him being like, well, maybe the media's taking him out of context.
dan friesen
You fucking idiot.
You fucking asshole.
You're the worst.
jordan holmes
That's a great...
Hey, better late than never, right?
dan friesen
But why admit it?
jordan holmes
Better late than never.
unidentified
Why admit it on the air?
jordan holmes
What else is he gonna do?
unidentified
He could fight.
jordan holmes
He was bored.
dan friesen
No, he could fight.
He is so terrible.
jordan holmes
That's hilarious.
dan friesen
So if you think...
If you think that's where this is going to end, this Pope shit, you're wrong.
jordan holmes
Oh, wait.
dan friesen
Because that was Sunday, and now our last day of the investigation, the 28th, Alex is back on his bullshit.
jordan holmes
He's back on hating the Pope again?
dan friesen
He is.
Because he has found a kernel of something he can get mad at.
unidentified
Oh, there we go.
dan friesen
And here we go.
jordan holmes
So he did do the research.
dan friesen
Here's how he starts out the show on Monday.
alex jones
Well, you have to see it and hear it to believe it.
The Pope says that Christ...
Failed on the cross.
The entire of Christendom is based on Christ laying down his life willingly in the face of death and hell and being tortured to forgive us of our sins.
The ultimate sacrifice.
God sacrificing his son.
An echo of Abraham about to sacrifice his son, but God following through on it.
Let's roll the grand pontiff.
jordan holmes
God loves killing kids.
alex jones
And what he had to say in Philadelphia yesterday.
unidentified
And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and His life,
humanly speaking ended in failure the failure of the cross Thank you.
you And then you go to the full clip, I have the transcript.
alex jones
He doesn't continue to say, but then Christ succeeded.
He just says he failed.
dan friesen
So, that's so, so dumb.
So dumb.
What he's saying is, on a human level, he failed.
That's death.
Death is a failure.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And he knew it because he cried out, why have you forsaken me?
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
That's the whole point.
dan friesen
I thought this was going to go differently.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Or whatever.
There's a lot of ways to interpret.
jordan holmes
That'd be a way better, way better.
Guys, I thought this was going to end up differently.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And then he dies.
dan friesen
But, like, the point that the Pope is trying to make, and it's super obvious.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Is that...
Oftentimes we get discouraged by not seeing the results of our actions on the human plane.
And within the times of our lives, you may not see that.
The cross is a failure on human terms, but it's not in general.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
And everyone fucking knows that's what he's saying.
But this is crucial.
Alex has this to say about that.
alex jones
When, of course, Christ rose again, if you are a Christian and you believe that, and it was the greatest triumph.
And his full quote is very...
jordan holmes
Yeah, do you get it?
alex jones
Jewitical is the term they use, or Jesuit-oriented.
Hillary says she runs her life according to Georgetown Jewitical thinking.
Where you could get what he's saying, that Christ physically was killed but had the greater triumph, but it's very twisted and has double meanings.
dan friesen
And this is the underpinning of the entire worldview that Alex Jones espouses.
There's double meanings to everything.
I'm not stupid in misinterpreting clear statements that people make.
They're using doublespeak.
So that's why he can go to John P. Ehrlich's textbook about eco-science, and he can say he's using doublespeak.
He's saying that they're putting stuff in the water, when that is not in the text at all.
That is not what John Ehrlich is saying.
But because Alex Jones has this conception that these globalists, what they do is they double talk.
Everything is code.
He can just say that anybody is asserting either what they're saying or the opposite of what they're saying or something in between.
He can just make up meanings for anything.
jordan holmes
Yeah, this is a problem.
dan friesen
This is a big problem.
jordan holmes
This is a big problem.
I like it when words mean things.
It means a lot to me that words mean things.
dan friesen
And this is why he can take stuff like that purple penguins thing and say like, no, no, no.
It's code.
So when he says they're trying to outlaw mother and father, man and wife, boy and girl, there is no evidence of that.
There's nothing in any story that has any credibility.
That is what people want.
But because he sees the double talk, he sees the double speak that people are doing, he can see transgender advocates saying, hey, let's not gender things that don't need to be gendered.
And he can be like, oh my god, they're trying to outlaw boy and girl.
You guys just don't see it.
You don't see the double speak that I see.
And it's like, no dude, you're brain damaged.
You're fucked up.
You see things that aren't there.
You're fighting ghosts.
There's a globalist cabal that you've imagined in your head from bullshit you read when you were fucking too young to understand how the world works and you're functioning off it as a 40-fucking-year-old man and you've created a system wherein, oh, everything doesn't mean what it means or it means whatever I want it to mean and you're making millions of dollars fucking lying to people about it and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself.
Anyway.
jordan holmes
You alright, Dan?
dan friesen
Yeah, I'm good.
jordan holmes
I love it when you get angry.
dan friesen
I'm so mad.
jordan holmes
I just get to sit here and breathe, and then I think, oh, it feels so good.
Is this what Dan feels like when I go yell?
dan friesen
Somewhat.
I worry about the levels.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you are much more under control.
dan friesen
I have a history of knowing how things are going to sound when they come into mics.
I know that that's what he does.
And I've known it the whole time.
And him just admitting it there in service of demonizing the Pope after he's already admitted on the Sunday show.
unidentified
I don't fucking know.
dan friesen
I don't really know anything about the Pope except for what the media tells me.
It's so evil.
This is so manipulative.
jordan holmes
And it is right back to that paranoid projection where it's like you are mad at him because you live in a world where that's what you do.
dan friesen
Totally.
jordan holmes
So if you do that...
Obviously, the people you're fighting against are doing that.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So that's why...
This gets back to that same level of hopelessness in, like, how do you speak to somebody who words don't mean anything to?
dan friesen
You don't.
Hopefully you educate.
I mean, it's too late for Alex.
He's way too old and he's way too set in his ways.
But ideally what you would do is you would, like, take a...
jordan holmes
Bolster a public school system.
dan friesen
That would be great.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that would be smart.
dan friesen
Teach logic.
Teach rhetoric.
Because I think that those are things that aren't...
Really well handled by the result-oriented and standardized testing-oriented public schools.
But I think if you gave people a handle on logic young, it would really enable them to understand arguments.
It would really help them decipher bullshit.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Beyond that...
jordan holmes
And that's why they hate it so much.
That's why they hate it, especially with the right wing.
They hate it because...
That is not what they want to teach in their home.
No, no, no, no.
What we should do is take parents away from their children.
Look, we should outlaw mothers and fathers.
Because they're the root cause.
Like, if Alex Jones didn't have a mother or father, we wouldn't have Alex Jones.
dan friesen
Finally.
jordan holmes
So we get them out of there, right?
dan friesen
We're getting to what our point has been all along.
jordan holmes
I don't even like genders.
I want to get rid of mother and father.
I think it should just be parent.
And I think we should let the children choose their own gender.
Really, that seems like the only way to do it.
dan friesen
And teachers should be jacking them off when they're five.
jordan holmes
Absolutely!
This makes perfect sense!
dan friesen
I mean, you're being satirical, but be that as it may.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
Maybe the way to defeat Alex Jones is just to do what Alex Jones is afraid of.
dan friesen
Well, no.
Absolutely not.
jordan holmes
If we all just start doing it.
unidentified
No, no, no, no, no.
dan friesen
Absolutely not.
But the other thing, the reason that I included rhetoric in there with what I want them to be teaching, what they should be teaching, is because it was a part of classical education, like rhetorical devices, skills, the ability, like oratory.
It's something that people should study because...
It enables you to tell, much like when we were very obviously able to tell two things on this episode based on studying rhetoric.
One, whenever Alex Jones does one of those voices, he's lying.
You can tell because that's a rhetorical trick he uses.
Second, when he starts putting on the Malcolm X impression, you can tell...
That something's going on there.
You can tell that he's full of shit and probably in a weird headspace because you know his rhetoric.
You know the tools that he employs.
And if students in primary education would be taught those sorts of things, you would be much more able to see a politician and be like, hold on now.
I know what you're doing.
You're whatabouting or you're othering.
You're doing all these standard tricks.
That Democrats and Republicans use.
I'm not just saying...
jordan holmes
No, it's exactly what you're saying.
The people who know these, who are taught rhetoric, are using it against people who aren't.
dan friesen
Right.
That's why...
jordan holmes
Like, that's what it is.
dan friesen
That's why a lot of these fucking...
The worst problem people in the world are people who took debate class.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
It's because they know these things.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And they know how to essentially hypnotize people with their language.
They use, like, neuro-linguistic programming-type tricks, and then on top of that, just...
There's so many dodges to arguments.
If you get into an argument with someone like a Paul Joseph Watson or an Alex Jones, they have so many tricks at their disposal.
If you confront them with, hey, you think that everybody is saying two things when they're saying one, and you cherry-pick which one you want to believe is what they mean, and you can bring up examples and stuff like that, they'll turn it on to, like, what about vaccines?
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
Or whatever.
There's so many tricks that you can use.
And if you understand rhetoric and logic, there are ways that you can shut that shit down.
Or at least recognize and be like, oh, you're not worth talking to.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
You're just trying to mislead me.
And then you can move along to something else.
So anyway, education is obviously the key.
jordan holmes
Yeah, our education isn't to stop Alex Jones.
It's to stop you being...
Fooled by him.
dan friesen
You shouldn't be tricked by any of these assholes.
The Cernovic's, Posobiec's, all them assholes.
unidentified
Or whoever.
jordan holmes
If somebody's trying to deceive you, if you know how to deceive people, you're going to be better at sussing it out.
dan friesen
Yeah, and let's be clear.
All of these people who are a problem now weren't a problem five years ago.
Like, Jack Posobiec wasn't really in the mainstream, no one really knew who he was, or anything like that five years ago.
And now he exists, and he is a mess.
In the same way, I mean, like, Cernovich was involved with Gamergate stuff and shit like that, but before that, he wasn't really a notable, prominent problem.
So five years from now, there's gonna be other assholes.
And if you just use the same awareness that you can have about Alex Jones or about Mike Cernovich, the next time around, you won't be tricked by his bullshit or her bullshit, whoever the next version of this is.
And that is what I would hope to see in the world, and I don't think we're going to.
But be that as it may.
jordan holmes
Yeah, we need some sort of vaccine.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Probably.
jordan holmes
That's really what it is.
dan friesen
Truth vaccine.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Alright, so Jordan, the last clips we have to cover, we have a couple more left.
And I will say that they're just good fun.
With the exception of the last one, which is an update on Trump stuff.
But here is Alex Jones responding to some space news.
jordan holmes
Excellent!
Space Command.
alex jones
We have huge economic news.
We have massive news.
NASA scientists find evidence of flowing water on Mars during the summer.
Mars is extremely habitable.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
Mars is extremely habitable.
dan friesen
What?
jordan holmes
Everybody knows this.
unidentified
No.
jordan holmes
That's why they put bases on there.
That's why they steal kids.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Make them work as slaves on Mars.
Frankly, you know what I've been hearing from my NASA sources?
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
It's too habitable.
Too many people could live there.
dan friesen
One of the main problems with this idea that Mars is habitable is there's not really much oxygen.
That's really one of the problems.
jordan holmes
With a weather weapon, you can turn that into an oxygen-rich zone easily.
dan friesen
I think even if you have a weather weapon, you have to have shit to work with.
jordan holmes
Nah, not important.
dan friesen
So, the breakdown of the atmospheric content on Mars is oxygen is 0.13%, which is not enough to breathe.
jordan holmes
That doesn't seem like enough.
It doesn't seem like enough.
dan friesen
It's really pretty much all carbon dioxide, which would kill everybody who ends up on that.
jordan holmes
Hey, plant some stuff.
That's how it works.
I have some plants.
They eat up carbon dioxide.
I breathe their air.
You bring a couple of plants with you to Mars, you're good.
dan friesen
That's actually, on a massive scale, not a terrible idea in terms of that.
jordan holmes
Terraforming.
dan friesen
Except...
jordan holmes
What's wrong?
dan friesen
There isn't flowing water.
There is a history of flowing water.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
There's flowing water.
dan friesen
Millions of years ago.
jordan holmes
No, in the summers.
Yeah.
dan friesen
So dumb.
But Alex Jones believes really dumb stuff about space.
And here is another one.
This is Alex Jones accidentally walking...
jordan holmes
What was the movie?
Was it Mission to Mars?
The one where Gary Sinise and Don Cheadle go to space and Gary Sinise joins the Martians?
It's a whole thing?
dan friesen
I don't remember.
jordan holmes
Like they left signals behind for us to follow?
dan friesen
I don't remember, but I do know that sci-fi is just the dreams of men.
So...
jordan holmes
What about fantasy?
dan friesen
It's the nightmares of men.
jordan holmes
What about creative nonfiction?
dan friesen
It is the astral projections of men.
jordan holmes
Ooh, that's good.
I like that.
dan friesen
This next clip, Alex Jones accidentally walks into my backyard.
jordan holmes
Oh no, are we going to get busted?
dan friesen
I'm going to tell him to get out of that backyard here in a second.
alex jones
Mars.
It has an atmosphere.
It is habitable.
Simply amazing.
And we now know what the ancients said in legend.
That it once had a thicker atmosphere and oceans, and it lost its atmosphere.
The Atlantean legends written about by Plato...
jordan holmes
Were about Mars?
alex jones
...claim that there was a connection to Mars and Atlantis, and that Atlantis lost its atmosphere, and that Mars lost its atmosphere, and that we're connected to Mars.
I don't know if that's true or not.
The ancients said it.
Now it's coming true.
dan friesen
The ancients said it, and now it's coming true.
I don't know if it's true.
jordan holmes
I don't know if it's true, but it's coming true.
dan friesen
Here's what I know.
That's not in Plato.
jordan holmes
Mars?
Look, Atlantis lost its atmosphere, which we all know.
That's what happened.
They died of oxygen starvation.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
And then Mars lost its atmosphere.
Simultaneously, I think?
dan friesen
I don't know.
Listen, here's the deal.
jordan holmes
What is the deal?
dan friesen
We've gone over this a little bit in the past, and Atlantis is a big passion of mine.
jordan holmes
It's a big passion of yours.
dan friesen
Plato talks about it in Timaeus and Critias, the two dialogues, and he doesn't say anything about fucking Mars at all.
That's complete made up by Alex, except it's not, and I'll get to that in a second.
He's ascribing pseudoscience...
Edgar Cayce type stuff to Plato.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Because he knows if he's like, oh...
jordan holmes
And David Bowie.
dan friesen
If he was like, oh, these theosophists, they told us of past lives on Atlantis and Mars.
If he did that, everyone would be like, oh shit, you're into new agey bullshit.
Instead, he claims that what those theosophists were saying is what Plato was saying, and then he's like, I'm just a classicist.
jordan holmes
And then it lends him an air of unearned legitimacy.
dan friesen
Right.
Actually, it has nothing to do with Mars and Plato.
It has to do with Poseidon.
Poseidon was the king of Atlantis, and his offspring were the reason that it was...
jordan holmes
I was going to say, my first thought when he starts talking about Mars and Plato, I'm like...
You are talking wrong because they're speaking more about the god.
dan friesen
Oh, you're thinking Mars the Roman deity?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I'm saying that he's deliberately confusing those.
dan friesen
No.
What he's doing is he's using some of this very, very dubious...
These channeled materials and stuff like that from these people like Edgar Cayce, talking about past lives on Atlantis and things like that, that build up the robustness of the Mars narrative, and the Atlantis narrative, as it were.
But also, what he's doing is he's bringing in ancient aliens.
He's bringing in these Eric Von Daniken...
Oh, yeah.
Type bullshit.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
He's bringing in stuff that has to do with, like, the Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
jordan holmes
Oh, what's the Emerald Tablets of Thoth?
dan friesen
We'd be here for another fucking hour.
jordan holmes
That's exactly how long I want to be here.
As long as it takes to get to the bottom of the Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
dan friesen
We could do an entire episode on this pseudo-scientifical nonsense, this weird spirituality.
jordan holmes
That's another Project Camelot episode coming.
dan friesen
I wish.
I'll go on Project Camelot and tell Carrie all about this shit.
Okay, so there's this pseudo-spiritualist belief in Atlantis that has to do with...
So there's a planet that's called various different things.
Maldick is one of the things it's called.
Makes sense.
There were Martians.
jordan holmes
Already has the ring of truth.
dan friesen
There were Martians and aliens on this planet and they ended up blowing up the planet and killing everybody on it because they got too interested in the sort of tinkering and they created atomic weapons and they blew up the entire planet.
jordan holmes
Isn't that the story of Krypton?
dan friesen
Basically.
So these souls needed somewhere else to reincarnate because they had to work out their karmic debt and what have you.
And so there was negotiations.
This goes into hollow earth shit, too.
It gets real deep.
jordan holmes
What about Xenu?
Is Xenu involved yet?
dan friesen
Xenu is tertiary.
He's on the side.
jordan holmes
He's in the sidelines waiting to get in, coach.
dan friesen
So there is a planetary...
I don't even fucking know.
They had negotiations in these...
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
These beings were allowed to reincarnate on Earth, and so they reincarnate on Lemuria, right?
jordan holmes
See, even they can compromise, all right?
They allowed illegal immigrants into Earth.
See, this is a far better world.
dan friesen
That's perfect.
So they reincarnate on Lemuria to work out their karmic debt and what have you.
And they end up creating a bunch of weapons and blowing up Lemuria.
So then they go to Atlantis.
jordan holmes
They're bad at working out their karmic debt.
dan friesen
Right.
So they go to Atlantis and they do the same things.
They create nuclear weapons and they end up blowing up Atlantis.
And then we're here in modern day.
Here's the problem.
We've created these weapons.
We've used them.
They haven't blown up the world.
And they haven't blown up any...
We've dropped nuclear weapons and it didn't even destroy Japan, which is an island.
So, and according to these legends, Atlantis was even bigger than that, and yet it was destroyed by the...
jordan holmes
Well, they had better nuclear weapons, obviously.
dan friesen
Here's the reason that I...
jordan holmes
If you've ever seen the movie Atlantis, you know it's easy for them to destroy things, because they have the 12 stone statues that put their hands together.
dan friesen
That's fair.
jordan holmes
And then, you know...
Wall of light.
dan friesen
That's as legitimate as the shit Alex is talking about.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
I prefer that version.
dan friesen
As I tell you these things that people believe that are nonsense, I need to make clear that I know that Alex Jones has to be aware of some of this, and this is where it's coming from.
Because the idea that there was a connection with outer space and Atlantis is all from this.
It has nothing to do with Plato.
Plato didn't talk about that shit at all.
So he's getting that from a source that has to be in line with the Von Daniken, what's the other guy's name?
Who cares?
jordan holmes
The guy's from Ancient Aliens.
Maybe he just watched an episode of Ancient Aliens.
dan friesen
It's entirely possible.
This is 2015.
jordan holmes
That's entirely possible.
dan friesen
But then again, he always talks about the Atlantean legend.
He always talks about how we're getting to this Atlantean moment.
And that is the idea that Atlantis...
Created nuclear weapons and blew itself up, which comes from this pseudo-scientifical, pseudo-spiritualist, theosophist branch of nonsense.
If you actually are really just going off of Plato, which is, you know, a respected source in many ways, whatever he's talking about Atlantis is very unspecific, but he talks about it like the destruction of Atlantis was the punishment of God because they were too warlike.
They went around and they disrespected the will of the gods.
They fucked with Athens.
It was too much.
So they got destroyed by the gods because they became too decadent.
It wasn't that they created nuclear weapons and then destroyed themselves.
He takes his entire idea of the metaphor of Atlantis from these bullshit sources and claims it comes from Plato.
It's fascinating to me.
And again, I could do an hour on this.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
I love it because he's so dumb.
And he should not be talking about Atlantis.
jordan holmes
Well, it's the same myth of fucking Babylon and whatever ones that you want to get to.
Turning around and turning into a pillar of salt and all that bullshit.
dan friesen
Yeah, but I just don't like it when he does it with Atlantis.
jordan holmes
That's Gamora and Sodom, yes.
dan friesen
But I just hate it when he does it with Atlantis because that's my shit.
jesse ventura
I love that.
dan friesen
You stay out.
jordan holmes
You stay out, Alex.
This is Dan's backyard.
dan friesen
Two more clips.
This one is just for you.
Mic down.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
But I know you love Alex Jones' fake laugh.
This is you getting, you know, it's that be careful what you wish for.
Because this is too much of his fake laugh.
jordan holmes
I'm just going to go fake laugh, fake laugh, fake laugh.
dan friesen
That's why you have to set the mic down.
jordan holmes
Okay, okay, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.
dan friesen
So here we go.
This is the worst fake laugh I've ever heard.
alex jones
Coming up, Israel will allow police to fire live ammunition at protesters.
And I just love this Orwellian article out of the Los Angeles Times.
I'm going to cover it when we come back.
Because whether you're for Israel or against Israel, whatever, it is the most Orwellian.
You want to know how they sell it?
They say, basically, if you're a demonstrator, they're going to shoot you with lead ammunition.
But don't worry, it's small caliber.
.223!
They're acting like it's not lethal.
223 is one of the most deadly rounds there is.
It disintegrates when it hits you and opens up.
Because they wanted to kill more people and maim more people in Vietnam.
And so they had to have a full metal jacket under the Geneva Convention.
So they made a full metal jacket hyper-velocity round that breaks up when it hits bone.
It's basically a fragmentation kinetic weapon.
Any bullet's a kinetic weapon, but it's a fragmentation kinetic weapon that gets around the Geneva Conventions.
We're going to shoot you with.223 from a Ruger range rifle, and it's okay.
Oh, my God.
See, I said I'd cover it after the break.
I just had to cover it right then.
unidentified
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
*laughter*
alex jones
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm crying.
That's so hilarious.
Oh, my gosh.
unidentified
That is the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.
alex jones
We're going to shoot you with an M16 round, but don't worry.
It's small caliber.
I'm sorry.
I'm going to stop right there.
dan friesen
You better.
That's crazy.
That's a lunatic.
jordan holmes
That is...
dan friesen
He thinks it's so funny.
jordan holmes
What the fuck is that?
dan friesen
I don't know, because that's not real laughter.
If you watch the video, he's really hamming it up and putting his head over his eyes.
jordan holmes
Very bad acting.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's terrible.
But the idea that he would want to present that he thinks that it's so funny is bizarre, even on its own.
The idea that that is the funniest thing he's ever heard is incredibly fucked up.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah, no.
Misusing knowledge about ammunition?
Of course that's hilarious.
dan friesen
So the Israelis can get away with killing civilians?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
That is hilarious.
You could have gone for a little bit longer.
dan friesen
I could have.
I just don't have the energy.
We're three hours into this podcast.
jordan holmes
That's the funniest thing I have ever.
dan friesen
I wonder what his real laugh sounds like.
Is it like Fran Drescher?
jordan holmes
I don't think he has one.
I don't think he has one.
dan friesen
I bet it's embarrassing, and that's why he doesn't do it.
I bet it's like...
jordan holmes
I really don't think that he has a genuine laugh.
dan friesen
That's fair enough.
Also, I'd like to say I liked Fran Drescher's laugh when I was a kid.
I had a big crush on her, and I'm glad that she's revolutionary.
jordan holmes
You did not need to reveal that information at all.
dan friesen
I think she was a very attractive lady.
unidentified
Anyway, this...
dan friesen
This investigation, like we've said, though you would not know by listening to it, is all about trying to find out when Donald Trump came into Alex Jones' sphere as Alex being his propagandist.
So I'm going to leave you with...
jordan holmes
A cliffhanger.
dan friesen
Not really.
He brings up...
Trump says something, or news breaks on the 28th, that is relevant to Trump's campaign.
And Alex Jones, I'll just let him take the wheel and let you...
Make of this what you will.
jordan holmes
I let Jesus take it.
alex jones
Trump has come out with, I've read over the Wall Street Journal article, what really makes sense as a super-duper tax program.
A massive tax decrease for the middle class and the nouveau riche and the working poor.
Not as big as what Kennedy did, but similar.
And a whopping...
10% levy on all, which it should be like 50%, on all the multinational U.S.-based companies that wrote the laws where they're tax-exempt, so they take all their profits outside.
Trump understands we need to bring a large portion of that money back, but it shouldn't be 10% because they haven't paid in more than 20 years basically any taxes.
They take their profits outside the country to tax-exempt havens.
And so we need to drag that money back in.
It's time for the globalists, General Electric, Google, Apple.
It's time for the Fortune 100, Lockheed Martin.
All of you guys, America built you, gave you the power over the planet, and now you want to sink it so you can politically control it?
No.
You are going to send that money back in here.
You took that money out of this country, you're going to bring that money back into this country.
dan friesen
Three important points.
One, he's saying...
America built you, which is very similar to you didn't build your business.
unidentified
Which is something he's very mad at Obama for saying.
dan friesen
Second thing.
I forgot what the one of them is.
But, oh no, no.
It's that he's grossly mischaracterizing Trump's tax proposal.
jordan holmes
Oh, it was nonsense.
dan friesen
It was nothing like this.
jordan holmes
No, no.
Also, I like how he thinks nouveau riche is not just...
Rich people?
Yeah.
Like, oh, no, no, he's not going to tax people who are newly rich.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
You know, you have to, on your tax forms, you have to write when you became rich.
dan friesen
Right, right.
jordan holmes
Based on your tax.
dan friesen
How old's that money?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
How old's that money?
dan friesen
But then, the other thing that I think...
jordan holmes
Great game show.
dan friesen
Alex is a fucking idiot.
Or, he's willfully lying.
unidentified
Because...
dan friesen
You know who runs a multinational corporation based in America?
jordan holmes
I can't think of anybody.
dan friesen
Donald fucking Trump!
jordan holmes
Wait, what?
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Hold on!
They still allow him to do that?
He's running for president!
We don't want any kind of conflicts of interest there.
I'm assuming, since this is 2015, the laws will kick in, and we will know that he doesn't have...
He's divested from his...
Oh, wait, no!
He's not!
He's not!
He's fucking doing the shit!
dan friesen
Fuck!
jordan holmes
Fucking Dan!
dan friesen
Alex can't possibly think.
That Donald Trump is so selfless that he's going to create a giant tax burden for companies very similar to the one that he owns.
jordan holmes
That's what he said he was going to do, Dan.
dan friesen
That's so crazy.
jordan holmes
Look.
dan friesen
That's so stupid.
jordan holmes
If RT said that they weren't buttering him up, you believe him.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
If Trump says that he's going to cost himself money as he has been known to do his entire life.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
You know how Trump is always like, how do I...
Give more of my money away.
Right.
How do I make sure that I am not the only person taken care of?
dan friesen
He used his own charity's money to pay for his son's enrollment in the Boy Scouts.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That's fucking what he does.
No.
jordan holmes
His son used his own charity's money to pay Trump.
To play golf.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
You know?
dan friesen
This is normal stuff.
That's not the act of someone who's going to selflessly...
jordan holmes
That's a man who wants to raise his own taxes, Dan.
That's what that is.
unidentified
He's begging for it.
jordan holmes
That's all he's...
He's like a dominatrix.
That's what he wants.
dan friesen
He's begging for someone to raise his taxes to 100% when he goes to fucking prison.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
He's a financial dom.
That's what he is.
dan friesen
Be that as it may, it also contradicts things that Alex has said about Trump in the past.
It absolutely does.
Like, his characterization of Donald Trump has become something very positive, as opposed to, this guy's a scumbag, he's a predator.
jordan holmes
The fact that he said for a long time, I don't trust him.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
And then he hears this dumb shit, and he's like, well, of course I trust him.
dan friesen
I tacitly trust this.
jordan holmes
Yeah, of course.
dan friesen
So stupid.
jordan holmes
Unbelievably stupid.
dan friesen
So I don't believe it.
jordan holmes
Or...
He got a shit ton of money from the money bomb.
dan friesen
That's possible.
And that's the last clip we're playing.
We're going to leave it here until the next phase of the investigation.
But at this point, he still, even after that, does say, I'm not endorsing him yet.
He is still in the same place.
There is no foundational progress.
jordan holmes
No, but we're seeing it happen so slowly, it's kind of disappointing.
There's no...
It seems like it's just a build-up of him hearing things repeatedly.
And he just can only hold one idea in his head at the same time.
dan friesen
Yeah, but there will be a day when he's like, alright, I love this guy.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that is what we need to find.
jordan holmes
That is the day, yeah.
dan friesen
That's what this is after.
Man, Roger Stone's gotta show up soon.
unidentified
Right?
dan friesen
His time is running out.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I don't know when it is, but he's gotta come soon.
Anyway.
This has been an interesting road that we've gone down.
It has been fun, but if you'd like more fun, you can find it at knowledgefight.com.
jordan holmes
Excellent work.
dan friesen
Oh, let me say this, too.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
I forgot to say this.
jordan holmes
I thought we were doing our plugs, but fine.
dan friesen
I forgot to say this at the beginning of the show, and I just want to give an explanation for why we've been in the past for so long.
Not great that I'm doing it three hours into the show.
Most people maybe won't hear this.
jordan holmes
Most of your introductions wind up happening.
At the end of the show.
dan friesen
I will have said, you can go to our website, and that's when I assume most people turn it off.
But be that as it may, the reason is, Alex has been out of studio the last couple days of last week.
Like, Friday, Thursday, he's been out of the studio.
And even before that, he was just trolling.
He's just trolling people.
He's doing this, like, people kept posting that he's keeping a dossier of his enemy's dick sizes and stuff like that.
That's just him trying to get more attention in the same vein as the We Love Our Somalis song contest.
It's all just trying to get people to bait.
Just grab this bait, and I'm going to reel you in.
Yeah, the dick-sized thing, it's a joke, but people will come and hear the truth from me.
It doesn't work that way, but it's still nonsense.
He still ends up making a lot of money off ad revenue and shit like that.
So don't fall for it.
It's all super boring.
And then at the end of last week, Reince Priebus got the axe.
Alex Jones, much like his argument that he got John Boehner.
jordan holmes
He took credit for Reince Priebus going down.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
And to some extent, yeah, maybe he did have some source that told him that it was going to go down.
And that's the drum he's been banging.
And it's possible, but I'm not interested in scoops like that.
That's not an exciting scoop to me.
That's palace intrigue.
I don't give a shit about stuff like that.
I don't care if you...
He's been hating Priebus for months.
It's not like he has some sort of inside information.
He thinks he's a globalist holdover.
He just hates Reince Priebus.
So the fact that he gets fired...
jordan holmes
I mean, he's not alone.
dan friesen
Right.
But him saying, we called it earlier this week, that doesn't really mean anything.
You called it four months ago, too.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I was going to say, it's not like he said Reince will be out by the end of the week.
dan friesen
No.
Maybe he did.
I don't fucking know.
Who cares?
He said that before, too.
jordan holmes
Even then, his...
He can claim that because the same people who got rid of Priebus are the people who already agree with him.
You know, like, Bannon is the guy who gets rid of Priebus because of fucking course he does.
Bannon hates that guy.
Alex and Bannon are the same fucking dude.
dan friesen
And, you know, we got Scaramucci in there.
jordan holmes
We got the Scaramucci in there.
dan friesen
And I would be fucking blown away if he wasn't Alex's source that Priebus was going to be gone.
jordan holmes
Probably.
dan friesen
The way he has these loose lips with journalists.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
And he's a fucking shit-talker, and Alex and him have some sort of connection.
I'm not entirely sure what it is.
They seem to have at least positive feelings, mutually.
I would not be surprised at all if Scaramucci...
Demonizing Reince Priebus for being a leaker is leaking shit to Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Of course he is.
dan friesen
And Mike Cernovich and what have you.
But be that as it may, it's just boring.
The present's boring.
And we'll get back to it eventually.
But I just don't care to fall into his stupid trolling tricks.
And at the same time, if David Knight, Paul Joseph Watson are in studio, we're not covering it.
unidentified
Nah.
dan friesen
So we'll see what happens this week.
Until further notice.
jordan holmes
The only way that we cover David Knight or Paul Joseph Watson being in studio is if they are hit by the missing Malaysian plane.
dan friesen
Or if Alex Jones is...
jordan holmes
If the Malaysian plane went into a Stargate and then comes out and lands on the Infowars studio, I will definitely talk about that episode all day.
dan friesen
Or if Alex does get SWAT teamed and David Knight has to fill in.
We might have to listen to him.
jordan holmes
We might have to deal with it.
dan friesen
In order just to get the narrative.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
Anyway, you can find us at knowledgefight.com.
Here are the plugs for real.
jordan holmes
If you want to follow us on Twitter, it's at knowledge underscore fight.
dan friesen
And you can find us on Facebook.
We're on Facebook.
You can check that out.
jordan holmes
I don't know why you do that.
dan friesen
It's a reference to an old comedian friend of mine from Missouri.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
He had a joke about, hey, what's the worst thing about being friends with your mom on Facebook?
I can't make my status bukkake, dude.
jordan holmes
Facebook!
dan friesen
Not a bad joke.
jordan holmes
That's not a great joke.
unidentified
No.
dan friesen
But yet, ten years later, I still remember it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's true.
dan friesen
Anyway, we are on Facebook.
jordan holmes
I think you're right.
It is the Facebook that sells it.
Otherwise, that's fucking terrible.
dan friesen
If you'd like to donate to the show, you can.
There's a button on knowledgefight.com.
It says support the show.
You can check that out.
Become a policy wonk.
Also...
We have some new stuff up there, some new lies in the archives from Alex Jones' past, some new entries in his biography.
There's a lot of content on the website.
If you want to check it out, there's a lot of stuff there for you.
jordan holmes
And I will tease this out there and see exactly how people feel about it, but we may be filled with buttons.
We may have buttons available.
We don't know what they'll say.
We don't know why you would get one.
We love you if you do wear one.
Why are you wearing a button?
dan friesen
Yeah, my buttons are cool.
They're punk.
jordan holmes
We should sell stickers for trapper keepers, right?
That's who we're...
dan friesen
Let's do it.
jordan holmes
That's our demographic.
Yes.
90s trapper keepers.
dan friesen
80s or 90s school children?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, whatever.
We're going to make some stuff.
Who knows?
Anyway, thank you all for listening.
We appreciate it.
Something we don't appreciate is an old toothless man.
That guy is named John Rappaport.
How do you feel about him?
jordan holmes
You know, I go back and forth, but right now, I think he can go fuck himself.
Go fuck yourself, John Rappaport!
dan friesen
Amen.
alex jones
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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