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#75: January 7, 2011

Today, Dan and Jordan time travel back to 2011 to satisfy the request of Policy Wonk Charles. Dan tells Jordan all about what Alex Jones was up to six and a half years ago, and the topics covered include: What was Alex selling before he started selling weird pills? Which president may or may not have lived a secret life? How much does Alex know about Austin banking? Where should you hide your guns, and where should you NOT hide your guns?

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alex jones
12:47
b
bob chapman
05:50
d
dan friesen
49:23
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jordan holmes
22:10
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Speaker Time Text
alex jones
Andy in Kansas, you're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
jordan holmes
Hello, Alex.
unidentified
I'm a first-time caller.
I'm a huge fan.
alex jones
I love your work.
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 Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Yes, we do talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
dan friesen
Maybe a lot.
jordan holmes
Maybe a lot?
Okay.
unidentified
Maybe.
jordan holmes
Is there a reason people would listen to that other than just two dudes?
dan friesen
No, it's neither of those things.
I know a lot about Alex Jones.
And that's our dynamic.
Today, we are going to be doing a dedicated time travel episode, because a donator has requested us to do so, so we get to take a break from our normal rigmarole bullshit and get into the good stuff.
jordan holmes
Fuck yeah.
dan friesen
But before we do, I want to take a second to talk a little bit about the events that have transpired in the world of Alex Jones since we last recorded.
He's been on vacation, apparently in Seattle, not sure why, and...
A video went viral.
Went mega viral.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Of someone throwing coffee on him.
jordan holmes
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
dan friesen
And we had a debate last night, you and I, about whether or not that was real.
And a lot of people seem to think it was fake.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And my position on it is it's not fake.
The argument that people have that it was fake is that the guy who ends up throwing the coffee on him is a wrestling promoter.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And that is not enough to convince me that it's fake.
jordan holmes
Not at all.
dan friesen
The reason that I think it's real is because that entire video, he is trying to pick fights with strangers on the street.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
And so someone throwing coffee on him is kind of a reasonable outcome for that.
jordan holmes
I would hope so.
If he is a wrestling promoter, that could mean that he's hired to do that, or it could just mean that he's the type of guy who's willing to start some shit.
dan friesen
He's a weirdo.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So that's possible.
Alex is trying to play it up as he got hit with fiery hot coffee.
And if you watch the video, he doesn't even flinch.
No.
jordan holmes
They described it as boiling hot coffee.
dan friesen
Come on, man.
Either his adrenaline is so jacked up from, like, I know I'm going to try and pick a fight with a stranger.
Yeah.
It's just like, oh, burning coffee doesn't do anything to me.
unidentified
Or...
dan friesen
It was tepid coffee at best.
jordan holmes
Right, like he's the guy from Split.
That's really what's going on.
dan friesen
I don't encourage people to assault Alex Jones, obviously.
I still think it's funny, but I don't think it's the right thing to do.
It's much better to deconstruct his bullshit worldview, but if I ran into him in the street...
And I had coffee.
unidentified
I might throw it in.
jordan holmes
I would hope to.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I would hope I had it in me.
dan friesen
I don't know how I would respond.
jordan holmes
So, regardless, we don't have enough information yet to confirm nor deny whether or not it was real.
So, I am going to give a conditional policy wonk status.
dan friesen
We're not playing the sound effect.
But you can do that if you want, but we're holding off on it.
jordan holmes
Conditional.
dan friesen
It's...
jordan holmes
Not going to give them the drop.
Hopefully someday we will.
dan friesen
If we can prove that he's not fake, then he will get an honorary policy wonk status.
jordan holmes
But just to make sure that his name is out there, it is Jake Stratton.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's gotten out there.
I think I've seen some people posting about it.
We don't have a scoop or anything.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, by no means.
dan friesen
But we're going to get into this episode, but before we do, I'd like to give an updated policy wonk status for someone who has donated.
Our friend Mike B. donated to the show very generously, and he has requested that he get a new rank, an entirely new rank of policy wonk.
Mike B., you are officially a Zionist Protocol Wonk!
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
So thank you very much for donating.
We appreciate it.
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
Now, to the business at hand, Jordan.
jordan holmes
You are a Pez Defeater, is what you are.
dan friesen
Indeed.
Thank you, Mike B. Today, we are going to be going over the episode of Alex Jones' show from January 7th, 2011.
Because we got a new policy wonk who donated on the time travel level.
I'd like to give a shout out to him.
Welcome him to the team.
What's up out there, Charles?
alex jones
I'm a policy wonk.
dan friesen
So Charles got in touch with me.
jordan holmes
Is it Charles Krauthammer?
dan friesen
It is.
jordan holmes
That's a weird one.
That's a weird one for him to get in touch with you, but I'm glad to hear it.
dan friesen
He reached out and he said that he wanted us to cover a specific episode, but felt it was a long shot.
Because it is in 2011, it's sort of outside of the database that I'm pulling from.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
So I pulled some strings.
Did some deep diving.
jordan holmes
Pulled some strings.
dan friesen
Of my own effort.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I did a deep dive into YouTube, and I found some poorly labeled episodes, and I found this episode, and boy, thank God I did.
Because this shit is wild.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I'm not even going to tease at all what happens, but you're going to love this ride.
January 7th, you know, it's the beginning of the year, 2011.
jordan holmes
Why are you setting the scene like it's a Ken Burns Civil War documentary?
dan friesen
We have just celebrated another coming around the sun.
The earth has survived.
I did some looking into what was going on in the world at that time to see what is Alex missing.
There wasn't a ton of stuff going on.
It wasn't a big news day or anything.
But one of his primary narratives is about a supposed bombing.
That took place in Maryland the day before.
jordan holmes
Supposed?
dan friesen
Well, I say supposed because I looked it up and I found an article about it.
I'll just read to you from the article from CNN.
A message found in at least one of two incendiary devices that were mailed to two Maryland state offices complained about Homeland Security road signs in the state.
According to a government official with access to information on the investigation, two Maryland employees suffered slightly burned fingers when they opened packages containing devices that set off a flash of fire, smoke, and sulfur smell, authorities say.
So it's fucked up because they were being sent to Martin O'Malley's office, was one of them, and the other one was directed to the Maryland Department of Transportation office.
So it is fucked up that people are sending maybe offensive things to state offices.
That's messed up.
Yeah.
unidentified
But in the end, it wasn't that big a deal because they were poorly constructed and they ended up just slightly burning people's fingers.
Were they supposed to be like a full-on bomb?
jordan holmes
Or was it like the guy was sending Joker guns that shoot out bang with the little flag?
dan friesen
Here's what I would say about that.
If someone were trying to send a giant bomb, It would be counterproductive to include a note.
That is pretty true.
jordan holmes
He's going to read the note!
dan friesen
It seems to me that it was kind of a flashbang kind of thing in order to get attention to the note that accompanies it.
And so I don't think it's necessarily the biggest deal in the world.
jordan holmes
Also, he was angry about signs.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Just signs.
dan friesen
Well, here's a quote from the note.
Report suspicious activity.
Total bullshit.
You've created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So he's mad about, like, the see something, say something.
jordan holmes
So he's a fucking lunatic.
dan friesen
Probably also...
jordan holmes
Who can build flashbacks.
dan friesen
Probably a sovereign citizen, if I had to guess.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
If you're mad about signs, we got a lot going on.
dan friesen
Alex has a little bit of a take on this, about whether or not it's fake.
Okay.
jordan holmes
He's dealing with it.
Whether or not it's a false flag.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Yeah, gotcha.
dan friesen
And Alex is dealing with it as if it is, like, a huge bomb.
He's dealing with it and presenting it as, like, this is very serious, as opposed to a flashbang.
But here we go.
Here's his take.
alex jones
You're going to see more and more staged attacks, but if...
The staged attack has too many whistleblowers on the inside.
They will pull back from it, and then will stop hyping it.
And that's the real mark of this, what we see going on in Maryland with the two packages that blew up at state offices that were being sorted on their way reportedly to the governor's office.
We're now seeing almost no news on this, and they're not hyping it and fear-mongering.
Now, that means...
One of two things.
It could be a few other things, but two big things that the probability studies and research shows, 90% chance it's one of those two things, just to give you a dead reckoning number.
A, these were real terror attacks.
Because the rule of thumb is, real terror attacks are not hyped, are not promoted.
unidentified
Or...
alex jones
They had provocateurs in there running this, and a good FBI agent or state police or others have recorded it and have tried to release it.
dan friesen
So, Alex, if you want to parse what he's saying there, he's saying that there's not a lot of media attention being given to this.
And the reason for that is one of two things.
Either it's real or it's fake.
unidentified
Which is, like, great, great.
dan friesen
Very helpful.
jordan holmes
It's wonderful.
Now, here's my favorite part, though.
There's a 90% chance it's either real or fake.
Which means there's a 10% chance there's something entirely new.
dan friesen
Probably Space Beans.
I don't know.
I don't fucking know.
jordan holmes
It's like Schrodinger's cat.
By observing it, that other 10% means that, who knows, it could be both at the same time.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
So that is sort of just a good sense of his analytical skills at this point in his career, which is great.
I love it.
He's been on the air for like 17 years at this point, and the best he's got is, it's either real or fake.
But I'm going to dress it up in weird language so people are distracted from the fact that I'm saying a truism.
But, most of this episode is pretty weak.
It's pretty soft.
Like, I would say two-thirds of the episode is entirely ignorable, and then the other third is outrageously amazing.
So, we're not going to be covering a ton of stuff, because he just does...
He breaks down how, like, the government is admitting that fluoride's bad for you.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
A lot of fairly standard stuff.
So, we don't need to talk about a ton of that.
But...
This is super fascinating to me.
Because these episodes are full episodes, they don't have the commercials taken out like the rebroadcasts do that I see of current episodes.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
So we get to hear what he was advertising in 2011 before he got really successful.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
And it's really fascinating because now all his commercials are for basically just his products.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
But in 2011...
jordan holmes
He was still working on advertisers, buying space?
dan friesen
He had to take on ads.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
And some of these ads are super fucked up.
And here is the first one.
It's wild.
unidentified
New year, new way to smoke, and it's Totally Wicked.
Introducing Totally Wicked e-liquid electronic cigarettes, the highest quality e-cigarettes in the world.
With Totally Wicked e-liquid cigarettes, there's no flame, no secondhand smoke, no carbon monoxide, no tar, no unsightly brown teeth or fingers, and no lingering smell.
dan friesen
So Alex Jones is fucking doing vape commercials.
jordan holmes
There's a new way to smoke, and it's totally wicked.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's amazing.
jordan holmes
That's fantastic.
dan friesen
When I heard that, I was like, whoa.
First of all, starting a commercial with, there's a new way to smoke.
jordan holmes
Yeah, right?
Is this 2011 or, like, 1947?
dan friesen
Like, what's going on here?
unidentified
Lucky Strike brand e-cigarettes.
dan friesen
Vape commercial.
jordan holmes
You can trust us, because we never lied before.
dan friesen
By the way, vape commercial is where we're starting.
The commercial stuff.
By the end of it, you're like, I'm so blown away by these commercials.
So, at some point in the episode, Alex wants to get into celebrities a little bit.
And here's his take on some...
Some names that we're going to recognize.
alex jones
I know Brad Pitt's seen my films, and I'm going to leave it at that, and likes them.
But to say Angelina Jolie is evil, without proof, though she made some Illuminati movies, I tend to not like her and don't trust her.
And I know Bono is involved with the Rockefellers.
I know he now is a front of the Bella Melinda Gates Foundation and is evil.
It takes me time to research something before I can 100% say the whole thing is rotten to the core.
dan friesen
So, I mean, he's lying.
jordan holmes
How much time?
dan friesen
He's lying about that.
jordan holmes
Does he have a timetable for us?
Like, does he give it a week?
dan friesen
Research takes as long as it takes.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's true.
dan friesen
There is no timetable to it.
jordan holmes
So, generally, we're talking about 30 to 45 seconds.
dan friesen
But Alex is lying about, like, I need to research stuff before I say it.
alex jones
Of course.
dan friesen
But, back then, that's a pretty restrained version of Alex.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
Now, I don't think that Brad Pitt is a fan of his.
I don't think so.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Where are we on Sandra Bullock?
dan friesen
Calm down.
It's surprising to me, though, to hear, like, nowadays, modern Alex Jones would be talking about Angelina Jolie drinking blood in rituals and stuff like that.
unidentified
I mean, I halfway want to talk about that right now.
dan friesen
The fact that he's like, now she's made some Illuminati movies and that worries me, but I don't know if I can say that she's evil.
Like, that's crazy to me.
That's so restrained.
jordan holmes
Where is this even coming from?
Why is he talking about...
Is this like right at Mr. and Mrs. Smith whenever they finally got together in real life?
unidentified
2011?
dan friesen
No, I don't think so.
jordan holmes
No, it's been a lot longer than that, right?
dan friesen
Yeah, I think it's because she's heading up like UN initiatives and stuff like that.
jordan holmes
Okay, alright.
dan friesen
Because she got super involved in activism.
I mean, I think she always had that sort of bent to her, but...
In terms of working with the UN, that might be around 2011.
jordan holmes
And Brad Pitt is still filming A River Runs Through It, right?
dan friesen
Possibly.
jordan holmes
My time is not good.
dan friesen
I made a real big deal out of how much I loved Seven Years in Tibet when I was younger.
I don't know if I stand by that proclamation.
I remember it being pretty good.
jordan holmes
What's the one where he's on the ship after he gets the really, really long hair?
dan friesen
That's Seven Years in Tibet.
jordan holmes
No, no, no, no.
No, it's not.
dan friesen
Fight Club.
jordan holmes
No!
God damn it!
It's like in the 1800s, he marries a Native American woman.
dan friesen
Oh, seven years in Tibet.
jordan holmes
God damn you!
dan friesen
So here's another commercial.
alex jones
Folks, you've heard us talk about HomeGain before.
Oh, yeah.
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It's easy.
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Enter promo code HomeGain150.
And receive up to $150 when you close a deal with a HomeGain agent.
Share the HomeGain 150 promo code with your friends via Facebook, Twitter, text, and more.
Look for Max the HomeGain Gorilla to find out more about how HomeGain is going to pay you.
dan friesen
Alex had to do that.
unidentified
Alex had to tell you to look out for Max the Home Game Gorilla.
jordan holmes
Well, one, that sounds exactly like something he would say now, but it wouldn't be about the website.
dan friesen
And it wouldn't be for like, you know, 75 bucks or whatever.
jordan holmes
Do you know what?
unidentified
What?
jordan holmes
It was 150.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
Do you know what?
I think he missed his calling.
dan friesen
He's good.
jordan holmes
He's a good voiceover guy.
dan friesen
If you didn't have the baggage of having listened to him say so many horrible things, the tenor of the voice is great.
jordan holmes
Oh, so good.
dan friesen
It instantly clicks into my head bigotry, though, so I can't enjoy it.
Right, right, right.
jordan holmes
Get that man an agent.
dan friesen
It's homegame.com.
jordan holmes
Because his movies are terrible.
dan friesen
I looked into this a little bit.
I looked into Home Game.
jordan holmes
I love the world we're living in now.
2011 is perfect.
I looked into home gain.
Excellent.
I looked into the protocols of the elders of Zion.
Excellent.
dan friesen
That's still in play.
unidentified
I know it's still in play, but that's my point.
dan friesen
Basically what it is is a website where they have a bunch of realtors who are paying for their service to be linked up with people to get...
Leads and proposals and stuff like that.
So there's a site where people can give their experiences about products and stuff.
And someone opened a thread about, like, is this nonsense?
You know, that sort of thing.
A lot of the responses are, this is a scam.
Here's a response.
Homegain.com is a waste of time.
I received a lot of fake leads with wrong phone numbers, wrong emails.
I do not recommend to anyone using this service.
Here's another one.
I have had home gain for three months.
I've done six quote-unquote proposals where there is a prospect that asks for info.
Not one has even opened my proposal, let alone rejected it.
Never even opened.
I think it's a waste.
That's pretty much the trend of all this stuff.
Alex Jones is just hawking weirdo scam product at this point.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Alex Baldwin would not be happy with the website, is what you're saying.
dan friesen
Vapes and a scam home owner...
jordan holmes
What is it supposed to be?
dan friesen
It's like a realtor site.
jordan holmes
So it's like find a...
dan friesen
They have a team of realtors who have signed in to them.
Like these people who are responding are realtors.
jordan holmes
Those are the realtors.
dan friesen
Who have signed in to use their service.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And then people who have a house or are looking for a house are supposed to go to Home Game to be matched with these realtors who are paying some sort of a cut of whatever for the use of the service.
I'm glad that Alex Jones has this revenue stream.
It's delightful.
jordan holmes
Who's running Home Game?
dan friesen
I don't know.
That much research I did not do.
jordan holmes
Is it a realtor?
Is it a scammer?
dan friesen
Venture capitalist?
Venture scam artist?
I would assume of some sort.
So Alex Jones has two interviews on this show.
One is amazing, and that's going to be the end of this episode.
The other is with this lady named Charlie Izzerbeet.
jordan holmes
That is not a real name!
dan friesen
It is.
jordan holmes
That's not a real name.
dan friesen
She apparently worked in the Reagan White House, and she is...
I'm going to say generously she's a lunatic.
jordan holmes
Charlie Izzerbeet?
dan friesen
Charlotte.
jordan holmes
Charlotte Izzerbeet.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So, one of the things that she wants to talk about is that intentionally Reagan was dumbing down the school systems.
It's debatable.
jordan holmes
I buy that.
dan friesen
The other thing is that everyone is a globalist, basically, in her conception.
She wants to talk about a group called the CNP.
The Council on National Policy, which Alex believes she is going to expose on his show as being the right-wing version of the Council on Foreign Relations.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So that's the liberal wing.
Right.
jordan holmes
And now we're getting the dark side to our lights.
dan friesen
The right-wing version of the dialectic is the CNP.
She does not get into that very much, though Alex keeps trying to push her down that aisle.
Like, this is why I got you on the show, wanted to talk about this.
And then she goes off into all these other...
Bizarre directions.
She tells a long story about how she tried to get everybody in the CNP and every Republican congressperson and politician to join her to get out of the UN and no one responded to her and that proves that they're all globalists.
It's wild.
jordan holmes
So globalist is her beat.
dan friesen
Yes.
Don't point at me.
Don't fucking congratulate yourself.
jordan holmes
It's not a real name.
dan friesen
It's a boring interview, and it's kind of unwieldy to try and get clips from, because she keeps sort of going down weird paths.
But here is a clip of her saying something that I don't think is true in 2011.
Not true now.
unidentified
And we don't have much time today, so really it's probably just as well, because it's better when I don't have a lot of time than I have to do bullets.
What?
jordan holmes
You're wasting time!
unidentified
This is terrible to have to tell people this, but we are merging right now with the Soviet Union.
dan friesen
Crazy.
This is the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union disbanding in 2011.
jordan holmes
And we're merging with the Soviet Union.
dan friesen
That has not existed in 20 years at that point.
jordan holmes
So we're merging with the...
Secret Soviet Union.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Which we all know did not disband.
dan friesen
It's the UN.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
Gotcha.
She's out there.
She's wild.
I swear.
jordan holmes
Where's our girl Callahan for this one?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I don't have any evidence she's ever been on Infowars, but man, if she ever is, that's going to be a great episode.
I think Alex would prefer to pretend he doesn't know she exists.
That's my guess.
Because it exposes a lot of how stupid his ideas are.
But...
I think...
jordan holmes
We need to make a rom-com.
Like, Nora Ephron should get those two together.
Like, what is it?
You've got hate.
Like, that'd be great.
That'd be great.
dan friesen
You've got hate mail.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
There we go.
But sold it.
dan friesen
That's not fair, because I don't think...
jordan holmes
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of executives knocking on your door to give us money.
I'm sorry.
dan friesen
I don't think it's fair, though, because Carrie Cassidy, I don't think that she's a hateful person.
And maybe she is, I just don't have enough information.
jordan holmes
No, but that's the plot of it, right?
Alex is so filled with hate, and Callahan?
dan friesen
Cassidy.
jordan holmes
Do what?
dan friesen
Cassidy.
jordan holmes
God damn it!
I couldn't remember if it was Carrie Cassidy or Carrie Callahan.
dan friesen
Yeah, I fucked this whole thing up.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I have no idea who she is anymore.
dan friesen
No.
So, at this point in 2011, Alex Jones is not afraid to...
Really make clear that he is a front for a gold operation.
jordan holmes
He's just out and out being like...
dan friesen
Well, he doesn't talk about it ever now.
He doesn't talk about what GCN, the Genesis Communications Network, is.
He doesn't talk about Ted Anderson.
He doesn't talk about how Midas Resources is owned by the same company that syndicates his show, the GCN.
He never talks about it.
But back in 2011, he didn't feel like he needed to hide nearly as much.
And on this show, they have a straight up commercial for Midas Resources.
unidentified
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jordan holmes
And you can find a realtor.
unidentified
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dan friesen
No, that...
I mean, I think they have a new number.
You can Google it.
jordan holmes
No, no, no.
Let's call that number.
What is it?
888?
Play that number again.
unidentified
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Get the facts and call Midas Resources toll free at 888-292-2709.
That's 888-292-2709.
And remember...
dan friesen
Let's see if this is still an operating phone number.
unidentified
Be told while your call is being transferred to Midas Resource.
dan friesen
You better remember to say you're on the air.
unidentified
You better remember to say you're on the air.
dan friesen
This is freaking me out.
Why is this still their phone?
jordan holmes
I don't know!
Are you a business pickup?
dan friesen
It's Saturday.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
It is Saturday.
dan friesen
Hang up.
This is going nowhere.
This isn't going to be Larry Nichols.
And what are we going to do?
Say, we want silver?
What are we going to do?
There's no game here.
jordan holmes
I don't know.
I just wanted to see if the number was still real.
dan friesen
It's weird.
I also will say that I know his voice, and that Midas Resources that came in that automated answer, that's Ted Anderson.
So he recorded his own outgoing message.
jordan holmes
Excellent.
dan friesen
But anyway, I just like that...
jordan holmes
That'd be great if we actually just got Ted.
Just like, hey, what's up?
dan friesen
You want some gold?
We need to talk about Alex.
So, one of the things that I find really fun about that commercial and what's illustrative there is they're scamming old people.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Basically.
Because it's like, we'll pay you to read our shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
By giving you a half dollar.
dan friesen
Yeah.
50 cents.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
That is kind of in the same vein as the 10 CDs for a penny kind of operations and stuff like that.
It seems good, but is a scam.
So, on this show, also, Alex tries to take a lot of calls.
jordan holmes
I still owe those people, like, $7,000.
dan friesen
I probably do, too.
jordan holmes
It's a good thing they went out of business.
dan friesen
The good news, too, is that we were doing it when we were, like, 12. Right.
They can't collect on 12-year-olds.
You can't sign a contract or anything like that.
So, haha.
unidentified
But...
jordan holmes
You idiots.
dan friesen
Be that as it may.
Alex tries to take a lot of calls on this show.
He wants to fill up most of it with calls.
And he's much better at taking calls in 2011 than he is now.
He clearly has a little bit better attention span.
But he gets this call and it exposes him terribly.
And I don't think he realizes it.
alex jones
In Texas, RJ, you're on the air.
unidentified
Alex, what's up, buddy?
alex jones
Good.
Good to hear from you.
unidentified
Good.
How are you doing?
Real quick, anyway, I just moved here to Austin.
And I don't really want to put any more money in the banksters' hands.
I was wondering if you could recommend a good local bank.
alex jones
Could I recommend what specifically?
unidentified
A good local bank.
jordan holmes
Small bank, you know, not in control of the banksters.
alex jones
Sorry, I was distracted.
They were fixing some equipment in here and had the door open and I couldn't hear you.
No, they weren't.
I'd have to research.
Local banks myself in your area, I don't really like to give people financial advice, because even if it looks like good advice today, the bank might go under tomorrow, even if it's got some great local rating.
But you can pull up, type in top Texas-rated banks, and you'll see which ones have the biggest reserves, which ones are rated having the best customer service, and I would look at a wide range.
I personally think, you know, old local credit unions are great.
jordan holmes
I agree.
alex jones
Things like that.
But, I mean, I specifically, RJ, don't like to give people, you know, individual advice.
dan friesen
Bullshit.
unidentified
His advice was Google it.
dan friesen
Yeah, but that's such bullshit because this guy is calling saying he lives in Austin.
There's no way Alex Jones, if he believes the things that he professes to believe, wouldn't have a pretty good understanding.
Of what banks were globalist and which ones were cool.
That's bullshit.
And...
jordan holmes
Where does Alex bank?
I think that's...
dan friesen
Probably offshore somewhere.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I have to assume he has some sort of a loophole scam going on for his money.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
But be that as it may...
jordan holmes
Well, it's actually all in gold underneath his bed.
dan friesen
Yeah, Ted Anderson got to him.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
That's the other thing.
Him saying that I don't like to give people financial advice is bullshit.
He plays commercials on his show for a gold and silver sale operation.
jordan holmes
Buy gold is not financial advice, Dan.
It is life advice.
dan friesen
That's fair.
unidentified
Okay.
jordan holmes
Live your life by this rule.
dan friesen
Buy gold.
jordan holmes
Buy gold.
dan friesen
Yeah.
And he constantly talks about financial collapse and the dollar is going to go away, which...
I believe could be interpreted as financial advice.
jordan holmes
How could it not be interpreted as financial advice?
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
The financial advice is leave the financial system.
dan friesen
Yeah, basically.
jordan holmes
That's his advice.
dan friesen
Get out!
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Hey, Google whether or not the world is going to end in about two or three weeks at the end of the summer, as is always the case.
dan friesen
The summer of rage is coming up.
jordan holmes
It's always coming.
It's my favorite season right before the fall of rage.
That's a good one.
dan friesen
It's because the leaves change.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
A lot of rage, but some beautiful colors.
jordan holmes
Oh, they get pissed off.
Why do you think they turn red?
Just like Alex.
dan friesen
So, up to this point, we played some weird commercials, but not super weird.
This next commercial made me blurt laugh at the office.
I was sitting there listening to it, and everyone stared at me like, what are you doing?
Because I was blown away by...
I, first of all, can't imagine that this is a real thing.
Secondly, I can't believe that the problem it's purporting to solve is real.
It's just layers upon layers of, what are you doing?
So, mic down on this one, because it's that weird.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
It's too weird.
unidentified
This is not a drill.
Repeat, this is not a drill.
Gun sales are on a staggering pace.
Gun prices are going through the roof and that means desperate, vicious criminals now want your guns and will do anything to get them.
Now, a new book reveals powerful secrets for hiding your guns from thieves and looters.
You'll learn step-by-step battle-hardened techniques.
Where to hide your guns so criminals will never find them.
How to create the perfect hiding place as well as the places you should never hide your guns under any circumstance.
These and other closely guarded gun-cashing secrets are guaranteed to keep your weapons safe and out of sight when the going gets tough.
But listen up.
For security reasons, the Hide Your Guns book and even the website may disappear without warning at any time.
Go to HideYourGuns.com.
That's HideYourGuns.com.
Or call 877-327-0365.
Before they come for your guns.
HideYourGuns.com right now.
dan friesen
Uh, that's bizarre.
jordan holmes
I mean...
dan friesen
It's a book.
jordan holmes
There's a book.
dan friesen
It's a book.
jordan holmes
About hiding your guns.
Yes.
unidentified
Where to hide them and where to not hide them.
jordan holmes
Under any circumstance.
dan friesen
Don't hide them.
jordan holmes
Like, what circumstance could arise where you're like, well, maybe I should hide this gun in this place, and the book is like, no!
Don't do it!
Not under any circumstance!
Sure, it's raining outside, but don't hide it underneath the porch!
dan friesen
It seems like a good idea given the circumstances, but that's because you're a fool.
You don't understand where to hide guns.
jordan holmes
And, hey, look, if you're that good at hiding guns, maybe you should write another book that says how to hide your book from people trying to shut it down.
dan friesen
Let's also be honest.
This is about making weapons caches.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
This is about, like, malicious survival shit.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
That's why it's like we might disappear at any point, because what we're doing is legally dicey.
jordan holmes
We're not to hide your guns.
dan friesen
Dig a hole.
jordan holmes
Don't hide them in your underwear.
dan friesen
Don't do that.
jordan holmes
Nuh-uh.
dan friesen
Don't do that.
jordan holmes
Don't hide it in your shoe.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Don't hide it in the zoo.
dan friesen
So while we're actually on the topic...
jordan holmes
It's just a Dr. Seuss book.
dan friesen
While we're on the topic of gun stuff, I wanted to bring this up.
I just saw an article that came out of Stanford.
They did a study.
Just came out in June, actually.
So it's a little bit old, but it had not come to my attention.
Alex always talks about how more guns makes people more safe.
And this is sort of...
It's a philosophy that people on the right really believe in.
It's that good guy with a gun sort of mentality.
Of course.
I'll just read this off for you.
States with right-to-carry concealed handgun laws experience increases in violent crime, according to a Stanford scholar.
Stanford Law School professor John Donahue found that states that adopted right-to-carry laws have experienced a 13-15% increase in violent crime in the 10 years after enacting those laws.
And so this dude went over fucking data for a decade of information that could be found and compared them to states that don't have a right to carry laws, and he found that that thing is entirely a myth.
jordan holmes
Well, countrywide, violent crime has been going down steadily since the 70s.
So if you see a decade-long increase in violent crime...
You're fucking up.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Because that's not just a 10% increase.
That's a 10% increase on top of the decrease that should have been seen, average-wise.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
So there's a swing of at least, like, what, 20%?
Something along those lines?
Yeah.
dan friesen
I think I'm comfortable with the 13 to 15 that comes from this analysis.
We don't need to bump it up to 20. That's fine.
But that's just illustrative of the fact that that sort of mythology, that argument is kind of full of shit.
jordan holmes
It's from Stanford.
dan friesen
Liberal bastions.
jordan holmes
Liberal bastions, of course.
They're just a front for Obama trying to take your guns away, Dan.
dan friesen
At the same time, even though I acknowledge that that is entirely true, I still don't think that people should have their guns taken away.
I just want to be clear, in case there are any Alex Joneses listening.
jordan holmes
How could we take their guns away?
They know how to hide them!
dan friesen
That's true.
jordan holmes
They all bought the books!
dan friesen
I also like...
jordan holmes
If violent criminals who are coming for your guns because gun prices are so high...
dan friesen
I like that that's the presentation of it.
It's not that, like, the government is coming.
jordan holmes
It's not Obama.
It's violent criminals who are just like, Oh, I wish I could get a gun, but I can't afford one.
dan friesen
I'm 30 bucks off.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
I just can't afford it.
I gotta go commit a D&E.
jordan holmes
I gotta go steal a gun from somebody.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
That's crazy.
unidentified
If you're a criminal looking for a gun, why would you go to somebody's house who has a lot of guns?
jordan holmes
That's just a bad idea.
dan friesen
Well, because generally you can assume that they haven't read this book.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
Not every gun owner knows where to hide guns.
unidentified
Uh-uh.
dan friesen
So they're just going to have it in a safe.
unidentified
Ugh.
Ugh.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Very gauche.
So, as weird as that is, there's another commercial coming up that's even weirder.
That's saying a lot.
So, Alex, like I said, he's taking some calls, and here's a caller who wants to tell you about a superpower that we did not know the globalists have.
alex jones
They've now had thousands of doves die with green dripping out of their beaks.
jordan holmes
Alright, alright.
unidentified
Yeah, I mean...
And what kind of, you know, gets me thinking a little bit is, you know, you see how they can actually control, you know, volcanoes erupting and stuff like that.
You know, a lot of these things that happen, you know, with killing a lot of wildlife that I notice is around volcanoes when a lot of these, you know, poisonous gases and fumes fumigate from whatever these volcanoes and a lot of wildlife starts dying off.
alex jones
Well, there is a big fault line where all these birds are dying over by Arkansas and that area where four states come together.
dan friesen
So, globalists can control volcanoes.
Great.
jordan holmes
I don't understand what exactly the point was there.
dan friesen
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
I know a lot of wildlife die around volcanoes because of the poisonous gases that are released.
dan friesen
But the globalists are causing those gases to be released.
I don't understand what you don't understand.
jordan holmes
I don't understand how they're...
Wait, what?
Using...
dan friesen
What?
unidentified
Also...
dan friesen
Seismic weapons?
jordan holmes
Who's killing all the doves and making green shit pop out of their eyes?
dan friesen
It's the globalists, because the dove is a sign of peace, and they cannot handle that.
I'm just...
I'm editorializing...
jordan holmes
You're just going with the symbolism inherent in the doves.
dan friesen
I'm spitballing.
But it seems like maybe that's what they're doing.
jordan holmes
Okay, but...
Volcano?
unidentified
Where does this guy even get any information about volcanoes, period?
dan friesen
I don't know, probably.
jordan holmes
He still thinks that volcanoes are made of papier-mâché, doesn't he?
dan friesen
And it's because the Earth is angry.
The globalists just taunt the Earth.
That's how they call volcanoes.
jordan holmes
That's how they call volcanoes.
dan friesen
They just scream at it.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
You're dumb!
jordan holmes
Nobody's more of a snowflake than a volcano.
Everybody knows this.
dan friesen
Very sensitive.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Always offended by everything.
It's this PC culture that is killing all of our doves.
dan friesen
PC actually stands for pyroclastic.
PC Society?
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
Alright.
So, we've already illustrated a bit that these commercials are fucked up, but they're also, on some level, strategic.
Like, he talks about the economy falling apart and stuff like that, and then plays commercials for buying gold.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
On this episode, he talks a lot about how the government has finally admitted that fluoride is bad for you, because there was something that came out where people were trying to push for lowering the amount of fluoride that's in the public's drinking water.
And Alex takes this to be like, ha ha, we now know it's bad.
But the reality of that is a lot of anything is bad.
So a little bit of fluoride is not really all that bad from all the research I've done.
jordan holmes
Not Brain Force.
Brain Force, doesn't matter how much you take, it's always good.
dan friesen
We know that's not true.
jordan holmes
Always good for you.
dan friesen
We have documented audio evidence that that's not true.
jordan holmes
DNA Force, good stuff.
Take it all.
dan friesen
Super Male Vitality, you should not eat on hamburgers.
We know this.
We have shown this.
jordan holmes
Bone broth?
Come on.
dan friesen
Like I said.
jordan holmes
Tastes like chocolate, according to Millie Weaver.
dan friesen
It's true.
She loves it, because she loves chocolate.
Anyway, on this episode, he's talking tons about fluoride, and then he plays this commercial.
unidentified
This message starts with a great offer from Big Berkey Water Filters, because we don't want you drinking dangerous water one minute longer.
Right now, purchase any filter system from BigBerkeyWaterFilters.com to get your choice of two Berkey sport bottles, a KDF shower filter, a set of fluoride filters, or our new Cyclast Spigot absolutely free.
Why do this?
Because over 60% of municipal water is fluoridated, and at less than 2 cents per gallon, Berkey Water Filters purifies Ah, there it is.
jordan holmes
Ah, there it is.
unidentified
Big Berkey includes free shipping on every order over $50.
And GCN listeners get...
Great.
dan friesen
So, I mean, there's the emergency aspect to it, like society is crumbling.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's there.
dan friesen
But then even on top of that, he mentions fluoride in that 40-second...
Right.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And you could make...
The reason that there's a cowardliness on Alex's part is that there is a plausible deniability argument that you can make that like, yeah, of course I advertise for this because I believe all of this stuff and this is the solution to it.
Which is not true.
He wants to make the money and his narratives match what products give him money.
jordan holmes
How do you filter fluoride?
unidentified
I don't know.
dan friesen
Charcoal?
jordan holmes
Out of the water?
dan friesen
Well, a lot of those filter systems are charcoal-based.
The water runs through charcoal beads or whatever, and heavy metals and stuff are absorbed by the charcoal.
I don't know it fully, and I don't know what Big Berkey is up to, but...
jordan holmes
I will tell you, I know what Big Berkey's up to.
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
Selling cones.
dan friesen
Crushing small Berkey.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
That they're up to.
jordan holmes
I prefer my mom and pop local Berkey store, but Big Berkey's got a...
Big Berkey?
dan friesen
Well, here's the other...
jordan holmes
They named it Big Berkey.
dan friesen
Here's the other really fun thing.
It's like, Alex still sells water filtration systems, but they're not Big Berkey.
Like, he has all of these products.
A lot of them are still things...
Now, vaping?
No.
That's not around anymore.
jordan holmes
But he clearly...
Vape like Alex Jones.
With the yelling vape.
Ah!
dan friesen
I just want a cigarette!
jordan holmes
Ah!
It's like a duck calling you...
Ah!
dan friesen
Let's make that.
How can we make vaping more annoying?
Oh, I don't know.
The pen screams when you use it?
Great.
So, like, it's fascinating to me because I think...
jordan holmes
You've got hate vape.
dan friesen
That's not going to set the world on fire.
So I think that what he does and has done since 2011 is he has these products, like the water filtration stuff.
And he's not making a good enough margin on it, so he finds another company that's a little bit easier to exploit, and he pushes harder and gets a better profit margin with whatever the line he sells now is.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I think that that's probably...
Or, I guess, I haven't done enough research, it's possible that Big Berkey changed its name.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that sounds more likely.
dan friesen
It's possible.
jordan holmes
Mainly because, of course they should change their name.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Their name is Big Berkey.
dan friesen
We're about to get into the interview that is...
Wild.
But, before we do, we got one more commercial.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And this is nuts.
This is so crazy.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
I like it, but it's...
This also made me blurt laugh.
alex jones
Diamond Gusset is proud to announce the anthem of the Patriot movement.
They're offering a free CD, T-shirt, and bumper sticker with a qualifying purchase.
Diamond Gusset offers great products at great prices while keeping Americans working.
unidentified
I'm looking for a factory where a man can feed his family.
Not worried about them moving south, closing the doors and shutting down.
jordan holmes
It's an anti-NAFTA song?
unidentified
I'm looking for America We're American and be proud.
alex jones
Go to gusset.com forward slash America.
unidentified
Again.
alex jones
Go to gusset.com forward slash America today.
dan friesen
So that song is awesome, but I should tell you that Diamond Gusset is a jean company.
They sell pants.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm looking it up as we speak.
dan friesen
I actually have already done so.
jordan holmes
Oh, of course you have.
dan friesen
And I have their Yelp page open.
unidentified
Ooh!
dan friesen
Some interesting reviews have come in about Diamond Gusset.
jordan holmes
It didn't solve NAFTA?
dan friesen
No, it certainly didn't.
That fucking song is so great.
I'm looking for a factory that won't move south.
unidentified
What are you doing?
dan friesen
It's great.
jordan holmes
I love love songs.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So here's a review from SP.
jordan holmes
That's like a Craigslist ad.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I'm looking for a factory.
unidentified
M for F. Not female.
dan friesen
Factory.
jordan holmes
Male for factory.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Nice products.
I like the jeans and the canvas pants.
However, if you order online, be aware that this company has zero customer service.
They're incapable of providing the correct size.
They evidently manufacture and tag the pants without measuring the waist sizes.
All sizing is random.
I have ordered...
unidentified
This is my favorite company now.
jordan holmes
I want random jeans just to show all sizing is random.
I love it.
dan friesen
Their slogan is good luck.
Lose weight, asshole.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
That it'll fit.
I've ordered...
jordan holmes
Or gain weight.
I don't know.
It's random.
dan friesen
I've ordered multiple pairs to attempt to get at least one pair of the correct size, which seems like a foolish way to do this.
unidentified
Right?
jordan holmes
What are you doing, dude?
dan friesen
Jeans or pants marked 35 can in actuality be 36, 38, or 37. Seems to be random.
You will spend money sending them back due to their error.
They also refuse to hand-select pants to get you the correct size.
So basically, this company is incapable of providing the correct size pants to their customers.
jordan holmes
How is it still in business?
dan friesen
I don't know, but I also think...
jordan holmes
I love this place!
dan friesen
Here's another one from Eric B. What about Rakim?
Rakim does not have a...
unidentified
I want to know how Rakim feels about Gusset now.
dan friesen
Received the pants I ordered and they don't even come close to fitting.
jordan holmes
I love this place!
unidentified
I love this place so much!
jordan holmes
Are you telling me that I can just order random pants?
That's my favorite thing.
dan friesen
They don't even provide return shipping.
Now I get to pay $13 to return the pants they charge $13 to ship to me.
I will never waste my money here again.
You shouldn't either.
Car hurts and arbor wear fit true to size.
jordan holmes
Why wouldn't you just give the pants to somebody else instead of waste $13?
dan friesen
I don't know.
This is another one from Dan C. Very disappointed.
It's not Dan Cortez.
jordan holmes
I didn't say anything.
dan friesen
Very disappointed in customer service!
Ordered three pairs of jeans, although really wanted a pair of their Defender jeans.
They did not have my size in Defender, so I ordered their Orange County jeans.
jordan holmes
They might have your size in Defender!
dan friesen
That's a good point.
But I made a request in the notes section that I really want the Defender, not the Orange County.
I asked if they could make an adjustment.
Received the jeans, but never heard from them regarding my request.
Then, within ten days, they advertised up to 30% discount on some of their jeans.
Well, it so happened that all three pairs that I ordered were now on sale.
I called them and asked if they would refund the difference between what I paid and the current price.
They said they cannot do that.
I will return the order and get my money refunded for the whole order.
It's their loss because of lousy customer service.
By the way, I work for Costco.
Yes, they are a big company, but one of their policies- Why are we getting into personal details of this guy?
Because one of their policies is if they have a lower price within 30 days, they refund the difference.
This is one of the reasons they have grown like they have.
jordan holmes
Doesn't Costco sell jeans?
dan friesen
Yeah, he should have just bought jeans.
jordan holmes
He should have just bought jeans from Costco.
God, I love Gusset.com.
dan friesen
Diamond Gusset.
jordan holmes
Diamond Gusset.
I'm going to order everything from DiamondGusset.com from now on.
dan friesen
Paul M. has this to say.
Purchased online.
Worst experience ever.
I find that hard to believe.
Inform them that the jeans I purchased discolored after one wash.
Keep in mind, I have a jean cycle on my washing machine.
jordan holmes
Were they the right size, though?
dan friesen
The customer service representative, who is barely discernible English, informed me that they have never...
That is never, meaning in the entire company history, including the time this person probably didn't work there, had an issue with jeans having a color issue after washing.
Amazing this is possible, and the person who's worked there is long to know this.
jordan holmes
They're more amazed that you are actually wearing the jeans.
That's what they should be shocked by.
Of course they've never had an issue.
Nobody's ever washed them.
dan friesen
I was told I could mail them back and they would look at them.
This, of course, is at my expense.
unidentified
30-day guarantee on the website is a complete lie!
jordan holmes
Take a look at him.
dan friesen
This is from Benjamin...
jordan holmes
Oh yeah, that's definitely a color spot.
Send him back!
dan friesen
This is from Benjamin B., not Benjamin Button.
jordan holmes
I wasn't gonna say anything!
dan friesen
I wouldn't recommend Diamond Gusset.
They lost my order.
Mad kept me on the phone for 20 minutes trying to figure out what happened.
I'm glad they're an American company, but man...
But man, do they need to get organized.
I love it.
jordan holmes
Where are these people?
God.
dan friesen
That's amazing stuff.
jordan holmes
That's amazing.
dan friesen
So again, it's a terrible company.
jordan holmes
How is this company still in business?
dan friesen
Well, I mean, here's the deal.
Let's be honest.
If they moved their factory down south, maybe they'd make a higher quality product.
Maybe they're suffering from shitty American manufacturing.
I don't know.
But that song is a banger.
Alright.
So here we go.
jordan holmes
I do want a free CD and t-shirt from...
DiamondGusset.com slash America.
dan friesen
America!
So, here we go.
We're gonna get into it.
Now, everything is going to be insanity.
jordan holmes
It's all up in the air now.
dan friesen
So, at this point in Alex Jones' history...
jordan holmes
It's gonna be as random as those pants.
dan friesen
Yeah.
No, it's not random.
It's just bizarre.
So, Alex Jones, at this point, in 2011, apparently...
I haven't listened to a ton of episodes to know this is true, but he mentions it.
That every week on Friday, he has a guy named Bob Chapman come on the show.
jordan holmes
All right, I'm liking Bob.
dan friesen
He's not around anymore.
I don't know if he's dead.
I can't find him through a Google search.
jordan holmes
Tracy Chapman killed him.
dan friesen
Yeah, she's driving a fast car.
jordan holmes
Exactly!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
We figured it out.
dan friesen
That was quick.
jordan holmes
That investigation?
dan friesen
Episode 0. So he's apparently on every week, and he is a Republican guy.
He was involved with Reagan's mayoral campaigns.
I'm sorry, gubernatorial campaigns.
jordan holmes
Gubernatorial.
dan friesen
Whatever.
So he was involved in that sort of world, and he has some insight and what have you.
We just had this interview with this Charlotte lady, and she's talking about how...
Reagan wanted to dumb down the schools, and he's probably a globalist, and the CNP is full of globalists, and she wants to get out of the UN, and no one's going along with it.
I think she said some bad things about Phyllis Schlafly, which Alex cannot stand for, because he's a big Schlafly flan.
Flan?
Schlafly flan?
jordan holmes
Schlafly flan?
dan friesen
That's a good dessert.
jordan holmes
Schafly fan.
Schafly fan.
dan friesen
So, that's where the first interview is.
jordan holmes
Also, Phyllis Schaftley is the single worst person on the planet.
dan friesen
She's unbelievably terrible.
jordan holmes
She's a monster.
dan friesen
Anyway, we don't have time.
jordan holmes
I would buy her some of those gusset pants in a heartbeat.
dan friesen
Knowing her, they'd probably fit.
unidentified
They'd probably fucking fit, wouldn't they?
dan friesen
So, Alex is having this interview, and Bob is on the phone.
He's been on hold for like five minutes when they go to him because the interview with Charlotte ran long.
And so Alex wants to get Bob's take on the things that she's saying about Reagan to see if they match up with his first.
Of course.
bob chapman
I was involved in the first good material race that Ronald Reagan was in, and I know a great deal about him for a lot of reasons.
And I know a lot of things that I'll never say on radio because they get me killed.
They'll start really looking for me.
alex jones
And you haven't told me about this stuff, just like I told the DC madam off air.
I said, do not tell me anything that's not on air.
We're all being listened to right now.
If you're not going to put it out there, Bob, in fact, I wouldn't...
Well, now you've said it.
You've pretty much got to say it now.
jordan holmes
He's right.
bob chapman
This is going to be shocking.
jordan holmes
There's no way it's going to be shocking.
dan friesen
Are you kidding me?
jordan holmes
Alex, vet your guests.
You know this is going to be a nightmare.
dan friesen
You think it's not going to be shocking?
unidentified
Okay, it might be shocking, but I don't think it's going to get him killed.
dan friesen
I would say...
No.
Do you have any conception of what is about to happen?
jordan holmes
Okay.
He's got some dirt on Reagan.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Stuff that he'll never say on the radio.
dan friesen
Because it could get him killed.
jordan holmes
But he's about to say it on the radio.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Because Alex has informed him that now that you've put it out there that you have this information, there will be kill squads coming unless you reveal it now.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Because Alex thinks he's about to get a huge scoop that he has bullied his weekly guest into divulging now.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
Get ready for it, because...
It is going to shock you.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
Mic down.
bob chapman
This is going to be shocking.
Ronald Reagan was a homosexual.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
bob chapman
Besides the fact that during the late 1930s and early 40s, he was making what we would call today pro-communist speeches.
alex jones
Well, that's on record.
I mean, they spun that that he was young and woke up later and became a conservative.
bob chapman
Well, it all goes.
It was part of the reason that he had as many roles as he had in the movies, because he really wasn't a very good actor.
dan friesen
He was doing sexual favors in Hollywood.
jordan holmes
Well, what shocked me is that Reagan wasn't a good actor.
Are you kidding me?
dan friesen
He was great!
jordan holmes
Have you seen his B-movies?
He was the Bruce Campbell of his time.
dan friesen
So, the reason I wanted you to put the mic down wasn't because I was afraid of that being mind-blowing or anything like that, but because I wanted it to sit there how long of a pause there was after he says that Reagan was gay.
jordan holmes
Reagan was gay.
dan friesen
Alex legitimately...
alex jones
Okay.
dan friesen
Alex probably thought that he was going to say that Reagan was in bed with the communists.
jordan holmes
Oh, he was.
dan friesen
Literally and figuratively.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
So I think he thought that it was going to be something, like, really huge.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And when it came that his big piece of juicy goss was that Reagan is gay, he was like, what do I do?
How do I work with this?
And you can hear Charlotte on the other line, and her response is, mm-hmm.
Which is like, okay.
jordan holmes
Wait, is her beat still there?
dan friesen
Yes, she's silently on the other line with a mm-hmm.
So you might be asking yourself at this point, how does Bob know this?
What information is he bringing to the table?
jordan holmes
I mean, they kissed once at an office party.
dan friesen
That is not correct.
jordan holmes
Are you sure?
dan friesen
No, I can't confirm or deny that, but that's not what he's bringing to the Alex Jones show.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Here is what Bob has to tell you.
alex jones
Well, I mean, now that you've said this incredibly dangerous thing, and I don't doubt you, Bob, you're not somebody I've ever heard feed people lies or baloney, and I'm actually, few things actually kind of give me a pang of fear, like standing at the edge of a cliff.
I'm pretty freaked out right now.
And not even judging Reagan if he was like that, it just freaks me out the power of that knowledge.
I mean, I do know that you are a conservative icon and did run with a lot of the big guys because you were wealthy and lived in California and were politically involved.
Maybe that's why they've always been after you since.
But, I mean, what did you witness with Reagan?
I mean, this is dangerous stuff.
We might as well just get this out now.
bob chapman
I saw a film, and I was also told by his girlfriend before he married Nancy.
alex jones
Oh, man.
Man, this is making me sick right now.
unidentified
Wait, wait, wait.
And by sick, it's just making me sick.
jordan holmes
He didn't see a movie.
dan friesen
He saw a film.
jordan holmes
He saw a film of Reagan banging a dude.
dan friesen
We're going to get to more specifics on that here in a second.
jordan holmes
He saw a film of Reagan banging a dude, right?
Pitching and catching.
dan friesen
Not quite.
jordan holmes
I'm fine with both or either.
dan friesen
I think that you're getting ahead of the game here a little bit.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
We're going to get to all those details.
Because Alex...
jordan holmes
And Reagan's ex-girlfriend told him he was gay.
dan friesen
But like I said, Alex does not know how to deal with this.
jordan holmes
He's standing on the edge of a cliff, Dan.
He knows how to deal with it.
bob chapman
Fear.
jordan holmes
This could get all of us killed.
Even you and me right now listening to this, they're trying to suppress this information.
dan friesen
But here's the deal.
At this point in 2011, Alex Jones is not a fully committed, devout bigot.
His show is not, at this point...
The beyond the dog whistle hate speech thing.
I think.
Now, I haven't listened to a ton of episodes from back then, but how he responds to this is very different than he would now.
He would scream about all kinds of shit and how it proves...
jordan holmes
Pedophile, etc.
dan friesen
Something along those lines.
But the fact that he's like, well, I mean, it's rough language that I don't like in terms of like, if he was that way, that sort of thing.
That's sort of...
jordan holmes
That's ignorant.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
Not necessarily horribly big enough.
dan friesen
It's not current Alex Jones.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
This is a restrained, kind of more reasonable man we're seeing.
Now, at the same time, because he's not that outright screaming about different people who aren't straight, white Christians who are under attack, he doesn't really know how to deal with this.
He doesn't know where he should go with it.
And so he keeps asking Bob questions to try and illuminate things.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so we'll get to all...
jordan holmes
To see if he can find a path outward.
dan friesen
Yes.
unidentified
Absolutely.
dan friesen
And he's unsuccessful.
But we'll get to all the details that you might be curious about as this goes on.
jordan holmes
I think we should leave a review on Alex Jones' website about how if you take all of his pills...
For a few years, you become a bigot.
dan friesen
I don't think that you're a smart person because you think that there's a review section on Alex Jones' website.
jordan holmes
Fair, fair.
Let's go to Amazon then.
dan friesen
All right.
bob chapman
...who know this.
Most of them are now deceased.
There's one that is alive that I know of that knew this.
But I also got it from another source.
Earlier on.
alex jones
You were with Defense Intelligence, correct?
But previously in Berlin?
bob chapman
No.
I was in Germany.
But quite frankly, I was never in Berlin.
And they wouldn't let me go to Berlin.
Unless they flew me in, and there was no reason to do that.
alex jones
In what context did you see this film?
bob chapman
The film I saw at a private showing.
And most of the people who are there, I didn't even know.
And it was by an invitation only.
unidentified
What?
alex jones
Was this a group of conservatives freaked out by it, or was this people wanting to blackmail him?
bob chapman
No, I think it was quite a cross-section of people.
jordan holmes
Well, that solves that.
bob chapman
And that's where I started.
But I learned before that that that was the case.
alex jones
From the girlfriend.
bob chapman
That's right.
And I don't know whether she's still alive or not.
She would probably be in her late 80s or 90s now.
dan friesen
Alex is so confused.
jordan holmes
That is my favorite thing.
Also...
Okay.
So, if I understand this correctly, Bob Chapman...
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Goes to his mailbox one day, gets an RSVP.
dan friesen
Absolutely.
jordan holmes
Just save the date.
dan friesen
This is pre-email, so yes, absolutely.
It's snail mail.
jordan holmes
And then he goes to this party where the main party of the party is we're going to watch Ronald Reagan have sex with another man.
dan friesen
Well, let's not be too specific about what the film is, because at this point all we know is it's a film.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
That somehow confirms...
That Reagan is gay.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So that's all you know.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So yes.
jordan holmes
And at the party is a cross-section of people.
These are the things that we know.
unidentified
We know.
jordan holmes
That confirm how gay Reagan was.
dan friesen
We know that Bob doesn't know most of them.
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
He does know some.
jordan holmes
Who is inviting him to this party then?
dan friesen
That's unclear.
jordan holmes
Why would anybody invite Bob to a party?
dan friesen
Why would this be a party?
So then, beyond that.
jordan holmes
Who's got a big enough theater?
In their home to properly watch...
dan friesen
Really rich people.
jordan holmes
...Reagan bang a dude.
dan friesen
Really rich, man.
That's no big deal.
jordan holmes
No, that's true.
dan friesen
The other thing is that he refuses to say unequivocally that this was an attempt to blackmail him, and he says that it's not accurate to say that it's conservatives who are just disgusted.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I think people just wanted to watch Reagan bang.
dan friesen
The agenda of what this meeting is is bizarre.
jordan holmes
I think people just wanted to watch Reagan bang.
dan friesen
It's possible.
jordan holmes
I mean...
I'd watch that.
dan friesen
Yeah, so Alex...
jordan holmes
I would watch any President Bang.
dan friesen
At this point, Alex realizes that he's coming into some of the same issues that you are, in terms of, like, he's talking to this dude, he's hearing this story be told, but he doesn't really know the specifics.
Like, what was the tape?
Because all we know is there's a film.
jordan holmes
I would not watch Willard Fillmore Bang.
dan friesen
Wilford Brimley?
jordan holmes
That dude is gross.
dan friesen
What about the two of them?
Wilford Brimley and...
jordan holmes
I mean, I want to see a mustache ride on a Wilford Brimley.
dan friesen
Come on.
Here we go.
He gets into it.
Alex asks for more specifics.
alex jones
Okay, well, this is obviously very dangerous right now, Bob.
So was this a porno tape or just him holding hands with a guy?
What was this?
bob chapman
No, no.
I don't know whether I should talk about the way it happened on air.
alex jones
Well, they're going to probably come kill you and maybe me if you don't, so just get it all out right now.
bob chapman
The film was a woman with him who used an artificial device to do what they did.
jordan holmes
That's not gay!
alex jones
Had this been taped covertly by an intelligence agency?
bob chapman
It was taped covertly, but not by an intelligence agency.
jordan holmes
Reagan made his own tape.
alex jones
That doesn't necessarily mean he's homosexual then.
But it does.
That's par for the course for these politicians.
That is just unbelievable news.
Unbelievable.
I actually wish I wouldn't have asked.
I thought it was going to be something like drugs or something.
Okay, this show's really taking a crazy turn.
jordan holmes
Reagan likes ass play.
alex jones
I'm pretty freaked out right now.
dan friesen
I love this Alex Jones.
Because he has a guy...
jordan holmes
It's not even like...
Well, it doesn't even sound like he's gay, so we'll move on.
dan friesen
Well, but he's like, I thought you were going to say something about drugs.
This is weird.
The show is taking an unexpected turn.
I'm freaked out.
jordan holmes
That's great!
dan friesen
That's awesome!
unidentified
That's the kind of Alex Jones I love.
dan friesen
Remember, like, episodes back, I was talking about how...
One of the reasons that I feel so passionately about how much I hate the current Alex Jones is because there is a place for this sort of thing.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
dan friesen
And granted, he's still full of shit.
He's still pushing narratives that are based on lies.
And it is into homophobic territory a little bit in many ways.
jordan holmes
But not on Alex's front.
That's the thing.
That's the weirdest thing I heard there was Alex, given the very reasonable position of, ah, it doesn't sound like he's gay.
dan friesen
It's downright...
Bordering on sex positive.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
dan friesen
He's like, eh, he just likes a strap on.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Alex very easily could have been like, eh, I've done that shit too.
Moving on.
dan friesen
He tosses it away kind of like, eh, that's not proof that he's gay.
That's common in West Coast circles and stuff like that.
That's insane.
The idea of thinking of him saying that nowadays is impossible to imagine.
jordan holmes
Of course.
unidentified
And it's funny and it's great.
dan friesen
I just, this bums me out.
Just based on...
jordan holmes
I just want to know who is at this party...
dan friesen
We're going to get to that.
jordan holmes
...watching Reagan get his ass play going.
dan friesen
We're not even close to done with Bob's...
jordan holmes
Pagging does not make you gay.
dan friesen
No, not at all.
jordan holmes
By no means.
dan friesen
But...
jordan holmes
Everybody likes a little ass play.
Come on, man.
dan friesen
Compare this to coffee-throwing Alex.
You know, getting coffee thrown on him, Alex.
Picking fights with strangers on the street because they don't realize globalist stuff.
Like, that...
It's so depressing to see that in six years that huge of a transformation happened.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And it's a bummer.
jordan holmes
It really is kind of the same course that the radicalization of right-wing media took for everybody.
At a certain point, how many of us can actually talk to our parents anymore?
I can't.
dan friesen
My parents are liberals.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I can't.
dan friesen
My parents are strong liberals out there in Austin, Teha.
jordan holmes
Done.
Done.
My whole family has been conservative.
They've always been Republican.
Right.
Because they think that Christianity means that's what you do.
But...
This level of insanity from them is just, like, where do you guys get this shit?
dan friesen
Well, one of the problems is it came on in degrees.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And especially with the youth, I believe.
You know, youth including up to, like, 30-year-old types.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Which is strange for me to say, but I think I'm protecting my own age.
Like, I'm not old!
But...
I think that a lot of it crept up on people through differing...
There was a lot of subterfuge with Gamergate stuff and men's rights activists.
Those communities became portholes to radicalization through real rampant distrust of any liberal movement, any liberal ideas.
The idea that George Soros is trying to trick everyone into cultural Marxism.
Like those sorts of things are implicitly a part of Gamergate and men's rights activism in as much as they are so based on being angry.
Oh, of course not.
They thought, hey, maybe feminism is a little bit out of line.
Maybe they are asking for too much, and they do actually not want equality.
They want to be over men and fragile male egos.
It kind of makes sense why someone would get seduced into that viewpoint, not realizing that it does not stop there.
You're going to end up being an anti-Semite.
jordan holmes
You know what?
dan friesen
It's a clear path.
jordan holmes
That gives a lot of credence to the idea that maybe Hitler was just a failed artist.
dan friesen
It's possible.
jordan holmes
If all it took was gamers to be like, I don't like fairness and journalism ethics to get to Nazis, maybe Hitler should have gotten a gold star for one of his patents and then we would be fine.
dan friesen
It's possible.
But I think the bigger issue is it will be a huge Pox, looking back at this period of history, it will be a big black mark on our history that people, especially men, did not listen to women.
In terms of Gamergate stuff.
jordan holmes
In terms of everything.
dan friesen
Especially the Gamergate and Men's Rights stuff.
The fact that people turn such a blind eye, and I mean, I was kind of hip to what was going on, but I certainly didn't act out enough.
I didn't speak out enough.
jordan holmes
Of course not.
dan friesen
And I regret that deeply, but history will show when they write books about it, and some people probably already have.
jordan holmes
I think the Fish people will write amazing books.
dan friesen
You mean the guys who follow Trey Anastasio on tour?
So, anyway.
jordan holmes
It's going to be so much like, I remember reading, I can't remember what the name of the book was, but the basic gist of it was interviewing people after World War II in Germany who were always just like, no, no, no, I wasn't a Nazi.
It was those guys over there.
I heard about those Nazis.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Not me, not my family.
We were always, like, that's going to be what it is.
dan friesen
Everyone are the good people.
Everyone else is terrible.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
You go to one of those places and you will see so many...
Well, like the Nazis now who are losing their jobs and all that shit.
dan friesen
I can't flip hot dogs anymore.
jordan holmes
In a year, they're going to be like, oh, I was never like that.
I know that they were just portraying me wrongly.
I was a misguided kid.
Like that whole thing.
dan friesen
Baked Alaska is even already playing that game.
And what's that?
Matt the Millennial or whatever?
The guys who are like, look.
We were fucking around.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, it was a joke!
We were doing it for the lulls!
dan friesen
Right, that sort of narrative is already taking shape, even though the complete disaster has not yet occurred.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But be that as it may, we'll see.
The organization in the rally in Boston is going on as we record this, or did today, and that gives me some optimism.
jordan holmes
Massive hope.
Really, truly a beautiful thing.
dan friesen
Hopefully something doesn't terribly go wrong later tonight, and then this sounds like...
jordan holmes
They still haven't released the guys who beat the...
They still haven't arrested and arraigned the guys who beat the shit out of DeAndre Harris.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's bad.
jordan holmes
And they know who they are.
And they have addresses.
dan friesen
Yeah, that's bad.
That's bad.
jordan holmes
It's not good.
dan friesen
It's not good.
There's a lot to deal with in terms of fixing stuff.
jordan holmes
Who's the snowflake?
Who's the snowflake?
The hundreds of people who went to the police station to say, hey, we took down that fucking bullshit Confederate statue.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Or the guy who beat the fuck out of somebody and is, no, no, no, I never did it.
Or the fucking cops who refused to do anything.
Fuck the whole narrative that the liberal snowflakes are all that shit.
No.
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
We're not offended by bullshit.
We're pissed off at you idiots.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not hypersensitivity.
jordan holmes
No, no.
dan friesen
It's something that's morally repugnant.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
It has no place in...
jordan holmes
It's called being a good person.
dan friesen
And, you know, there's a lot of stuff that we should unpack in terms of...
There's a lot of foreign issues that are also equally repulsive.
And I think it's something that we should maybe take a look at.
We don't do a good enough job necessarily on this show of, you know, other atrocities that happen around the world.
jordan holmes
The number of things we don't do a good enough job doing on this show is...
I mean, you know, we're pretty good at doing the main thing that we do, I feel like.
dan friesen
We focus on Alex, and unfortunately that means we can't talk about how terrible other governments are outside of, let's say, ours and Russia.
jordan holmes
Turkey.
Fucking Turkey, man.
dan friesen
Alex doesn't talk about them too much.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I imagine not.
Isn't...
Which one was...
Was it Manafort?
Who was it that was...
dan friesen
Flynn was working for Turkey.
jordan holmes
Flynn was the one who was working for Turkey.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
Yeah, because Manafort was more based out of Ukraine and Yanukovych.
Right.
But be that as it may, we've got to get back to Reagan being gay.
jordan holmes
Can you say that sentence one more time?
dan friesen
Ladies and gentlemen, we've got to get back to Reagan being gay.
So this next clip, Alex wants to know when Bob saw the film.
alex jones
Bob Shetman, I guess a Hollywood actor, Bohemian Grove, I mean, I guess it's really par for the course, but what year was this whenever you were shown this film?
unidentified
Hey.
bob chapman
Late 1970s.
Early 1980s.
dan friesen
That doesn't inspire confidence.
jordan holmes
Wait, if it was the late 1970s and early 1980s, Reagan was either president or just about to be president.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
So, there was a party.
I can't get around this.
I can't get around this story.
Somebody invited Bob Chapman to a place to watch a film of the president getting pegged.
Now, that is a great day.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
I would think.
jordan holmes
Think of all the positive feelings you would have.
You would be like...
Oh, I was invited to this.
They think I'm so cool that I would be happy to watch the president getting pegged.
And then you see the president getting pegged and you're like, well, that was alright.
Wasn't as good as I had hoped.
I don't even think they gave him a reach around, which is like, what's the fucking point?
You know what I'm saying right there?
dan friesen
It's probably from a bad angle.
jordan holmes
Yeah, exactly.
dan friesen
I can't jack to this.
But, like, you hit the nail kind of on the head, I think, with your first piece there that is...
Given the time frame, Reagan was a massively important figure.
alex jones
Yeah.
dan friesen
So the idea that he gets involved, he gets invited to this screening where they watch him getting buttfucked, is like, why do you...
Only have a decade.
Late 70s, early 80s could be a swath of 10 years that we're talking about.
unidentified
You would remember very clearly the day you saw the president get pegged.
jordan holmes
That would be my 9-11, that's for sure.
dan friesen
That calls into question the entire credibility of this story.
Of course.
If it was me, and let's say I get invited to a party and I see Trump getting pegged.
I'd be like, that happened in 2017.
alex jones
I remember it very early.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
The sky was blue.
I remember there was two clouds in the sky.
One bird flew by.
You would have total recall of that entire day.
dan friesen
30 years passed.
I would still remember exactly.
jordan holmes
I would not stop telling that story.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I guess he hasn't because he's afraid he'd get killed.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's possible.
He's tried to forget it.
dan friesen
Or it's all made up.
jordan holmes
It could all be made up.
dan friesen
Who knows?
jordan holmes
I bet Trump has been pegged.
dan friesen
Maybe.
So anyway, I mean, and if he has, God bless him.
Who cares?
This next clip, we get into more about the nature of this screening.
And Alex, again, is really trying to find a foothold.
alex jones
So, I mean, obviously then he's been blackmailed all along.
If you were taken to some elite screening, I mean, was this an elite screening?
bob chapman
Yeah, it was elite.
But I knew already.
alex jones
Well, I mean, let me tell you something.
Hold on.
If somebody said, come to a screen...
Did they tell you what was going to be at it?
Because if somebody told me, hypothetically, come to a screening of Bill Clinton...
You know, getting rough with a woman or something, you know, which we know he likes to do.
He knocks their teeth out.
I would say, no way!
No way!
No way!
I mean, I'm all about exposing stuff right out in the open.
And it's not that I'm a coward.
I don't have a death wish.
I want to keep operating and fighting them out in the open.
This is the kind of stuff that is super dangerous.
It's like I told the DC madam.
And, I mean, why would the...
I mean, were you told it was a screening of Ronald Reagan?
Or did they just get you there and show it to you?
bob chapman
They said it was important.
They got me there, and I was shown it.
alex jones
Could it have been a fake?
bob chapman
I really didn't know what the content was going to be.
alex jones
Could it have been a fake?
bob chapman
I don't think so.
alex jones
Was it black and white?
bob chapman
I don't know about faking movies, but it did look fake to me.
alex jones
Was it black and white?
bob chapman
Yes.
alex jones
How old did he look?
bob chapman
I quite frankly can't remember.
alex jones
Was it the older Reagan at the time, or was it a younger Reagan?
bob chapman
That's a good question.
jordan holmes
How do you not know?
bob chapman
I would say older.
alex jones
Oh, man.
Anything else, Bob, that you need to get out now so they don't set a hit team down there?
bob chapman
Well, quite frankly, he was a nice person to be around.
jordan holmes
Is there anything else, Bob?
dan friesen
Yeah, you can hear the frustration in Alex's voice because he thought...
We're standing on the precipice of danger.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
We got a real thing going on.
dan friesen
He thought, like, I don't know.
I don't know what it would be.
Some sort of drug-running operation inside information.
jordan holmes
I mean, we already had Iran-Contra.
dan friesen
Yeah, he thought maybe...
jordan holmes
This is a bigger scandal than that?
dan friesen
Well, I mean, he has Larry Nichols on all the time who was involved in that.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Dealing with Nicaragua.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but that's fine.
dan friesen
Yeah, who cares?
So in this next clip, Alex is really...
Like I said, this whole time, he just does not know what to do.
And in this clip, he's really struggling to figure out what to judge.
He doesn't know where to put his disgust, really, because he's not a super angry public bigot.
So he can't just be like, queer, this guy's a queer, or anything like that.
So he has to figure out, like, what is it about this story that I'm mad about?
And he has a lot of...
jordan holmes
Oh, it's Bob.
That's what it is.
alex jones
It's about Bob.
dan friesen
It seems like this might be the end of Bob's tenure as a weekly guest.
But here we go.
alex jones
It's hard to shake me up.
And Bob, what shook me up is not that there's wild stuff going on in Hollywood.
It's that Ronald Reagan is such an icon for so many conservatives.
It's like this image of conservatism.
And what he said, the things he was for on paper sounded really great.
And I remember watching politics during the Republican and Democratic conventions in 79, 80, and my parents not telling me what political views to have.
Who do you like?
So I watched the Democrat, Republican, and I said, I like the Republicans.
I like Ronald Reagan.
When I was six years old or whatever, I'm only 36, folks.
And it's just that icon image.
But it's not even that he was some woman doing something freaky.
I mean, that's still disconcerting, but I'm not here judging people.
It's Bob Chapman, who I know is an icon, conservative.
True conservative pedigree going back 50 years.
I know you know all these people.
I know you've been instrumental in all this stuff.
I know you were friends with Reagan.
That's on record.
And then you come on air and say that, and so I have to take it as the truth.
I wish it wasn't the truth.
It's like I don't know how to compute that.
I mean, that sounds so Hollywood-esque, you know, dark film right there, just black and white footage of Ronald Reagan.
You know, it was some...
I mean, why were you invited to this meeting, Bob Shatley?
bob chapman
Because I was connected to a couple of other people who were invited.
alex jones
And what did they say?
I mean, they said, this is why we're showing this?
bob chapman
No, they just said it's a very interesting film, and you should come and watch it.
And I know these people quite well.
jordan holmes
The character work was amazing.
bob chapman
I said, okay, I'll go.
And that's what I found out.
And they said to me afterwards, well, what do you think?
I said, well, I'm surprised that I'm not.
And then I told them what I had learned from somebody else years before.
alex jones
Do you think this was an intelligence-gathering operation with people they know, knew, and were friends with Ronald Reagan to see if they could get more intel?
bob chapman
No, these are people, the ones who I knew who were there, who I knew who they were, they were all very conservative people.
But there were other people there I didn't know.
alex jones
How many people were there, roughly?
About 15, 18. I know as soon as this show's over, I'm going to think of a hundred things I wanted to ask you about this.
bob chapman
Well, I'm going to be around for a long time.
jordan holmes
How big was the strap-on?
bob chapman
Don't worry about it.
alex jones
No, I know.
bob chapman
But, you know, I was shocked, too.
And I liked him.
He was a very nice person, you know, at least to meet socially.
That's just the way it turned out.
I lived in Southern California for 36 years.
jordan holmes
Turns out he likes getting pegged.
bob chapman
You came to expect that you would find out things like that about people that you wouldn't normally find out in Indianapolis, Indiana.
It was a pretty wild lifestyle in California, just like there is in New York City.
A lot of pegging out there.
And especially Southern California.
Well, I guess San Francisco has been.
alex jones
No, I've brushed up against it.
I don't like it.
And we've got a lot of affiliates out in California, beautiful coast, nice people.
I just don't like Los Angeles and the overall.
And, of course, that's an oversimplification.
I just kind of get the willies.
And it's not that I get the willies.
I mean, I'm not judging somebody, and I'm not certainly endorsing it, but, I mean, you know, what some guy and a woman are doing, whatever, it's just the films of it and stuff.
dan friesen
That seems to be where he's landing.
It's bad to film sex, I guess.
jordan holmes
I suppose.
dan friesen
You can see it, though.
He doesn't know what to do here.
He's like, you know, that weird Hollywood lifestyle.
I don't approve of it.
I'm not condemning it.
I don't know what a guy and a girl do.
unidentified
It's fine.
dan friesen
Don't tape it.
jordan holmes
I love Bob Chapman's summary of, like, I didn't know what it was going to be.
My friend said it was a very interesting film.
dan friesen
Very interesting.
jordan holmes
So we saw it.
And afterwards they asked me, what did I think?
I thought there were some third act issues.
Like, what are you talking about?
He just saw the president get pegged.
What do you think?
You know, I don't think it changes my opinion of his ability to govern, but I did not know that he could fit a dildo that big in there.
I don't know.
What are you supposed to say?
dan friesen
And he already knows.
He already has the girlfriend from the past who's told him this already.
And what did she tell him?
He never says.
jordan holmes
I imagine the girlfriend didn't tell him.
That he was gay.
The girlfriend said he liked getting pegged.
dan friesen
He likes ass play.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And because it was such an unevolved time, there was no differentiation.
unidentified
That's true.
dan friesen
There was just, like, he probably heard from the girlfriend that he likes maybe a finger in the ass.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And then his response was, oh, I know he's gay.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
As opposed to, he just likes a little fun.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Or maybe...
dan friesen
Likes to get weird.
jordan holmes
I mean, Bob, it seems like Bob should have tried it immediately after that, right?
dan friesen
If it's good enough for the president...
jordan holmes
If some ass play is good enough for the president, Bob, you gotta give it a go!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah, come on, man.
dan friesen
Grow up, Bob.
jordan holmes
There isn't a...
Which comic said it?
There isn't, like, a button inside your asshole that turns you gay.
dan friesen
I don't know, but fine.
Yeah.
So, like we're experiencing, Alex is not sure what to do.
He's judging California, but then being like, I don't know, gives me the willies.
Not the willies, like, I don't like gays, but like, ah, it's just, yeah!
jordan holmes
Let he who has not been pegged cast the first deal.
dan friesen
He is amateurish at this point.
He does not know what he's doing.
And in this next clip, he sort of makes clear that...
jordan holmes
Now, in his defense, though, that's a weird-ass thing to be told when...
It's a weird-ass thing to be told.
unidentified
Boo.
jordan holmes
No, that's a weird thing.
So he thinks he's about to get a huge scoop on the secret Reagan...
Communist.
dan friesen
This could be his next Bohemian Grove.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
And instead, a guy that he has regularly had on the show just drops in with like, oh, Reagan's gay.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
What are you...
There's no way to...
dan friesen
He doesn't just drop that in.
He does say, I shouldn't be talking about this.
It'll get us killed.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
Or whatever.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
But even if you're, you know, even if you're Walter Cronkite, you're not going to be like, well, I've got a plan for this one.
dan friesen
I think you could.
I think if I were in Alex's shoes, I could kind of roll with it.
jordan holmes
Well, yeah, but you wouldn't have to take it seriously.
dan friesen
That's true.
And Alex is doing the best he can to ask questions.
And I think through the questions, he's revealing that Bob does not have a good grasp on details.
And that leads me to believe...
Barring any other evidence, any invitations to a weird party that I might get in the future.
jordan holmes
Oh, man!
dan friesen
But, like, without that in place, I don't believe him.
These details don't make sense.
The vagueness of his inability to answer questions that are very simple, like, was it old or young Reagan?
When did you see this?
Why were you there?
It's all just so vague.
jordan holmes
See, now I imagine this tape as being, like, the room.
Where people get together and they shout the same thing.
Hey, yeah, look!
dan friesen
It's like Rocky Horror.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it's like Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Now I want to see this.
dan friesen
In this next clip, Alex, he kind of shows a little bit of his cards.
And there's a real sense that he is pretty bummed out about the way the show has gone.
jordan holmes
The way in which he said Bob that one time, that's more than...
Way to go, Bob!
alex jones
Well, I mean, did they tell you why it had been taped?
I mean, you said covertly.
I mean, this is horrible.
jordan holmes
Oh, Reagan had taped it himself.
bob chapman
I don't know why it was taped, but I think it was for blackmail.
And then it was, I think, used politically later.
alex jones
Well, no kidding.
bob chapman
When I saw it.
alex jones
Well, then why would they leak it out to these people so the message would get back to Rainbow Ronnie that everybody knew?
bob chapman
No, I don't think so.
I just think that...
They felt it was time to show it, I guess.
I really don't know there.
alex jones
Well, I can't play it on air because there's so much profanity.
But Harper's Magazine, six years ago, published another report about Nixon interviews they'd done and stuff they didn't publish in the 70s.
And when people thought, said, oh, that can't be true, they released the tape.
And it's, you know, Bohemian Grove, San Francisco and Northern California.
Yeah, they all go up there with Reagan and everybody else.
Let me tell you something, it's the most, you know, they started using profanity but talking about all the homosexual activity.
jordan holmes
Bohemian Grove, man.
alex jones
It just seems to always pop up with Republicans and then with Democrats.
It's like beating women and stuff.
It's like Democrats, it's always breaking women's noses.
And then Republicans, unless it's Dick Cheney, he likes what the Democrats like.
It's the walking dead with his bionic heart with no pulse, Dick Cheney.
And with Republicans, how many of them get caught in restrooms and stuff?
I mean, what's going on?
I mean, do you have to be like that to be a super high-level Republican?
bob chapman
No, I don't think so, but I do believe...
That's the beginning of our pedophile network right there.
dan friesen
Yeah, at this point, Alex has not developed the narrative.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he doesn't have the pedophile network yet.
dan friesen
Yep, so we know at least in 2011 that was not a piece of his go-to worldview.
And it's possible that he just doesn't think of it.
He's not as frenetic of a broadcaster at this point.
jordan holmes
He's just a little bit thrown off by the new...
By the new information that he has about Reagan.
dan friesen
That's possible.
jordan holmes
I think it's changed the way we all feel about Reagan.
dan friesen
Certainly.
jordan holmes
I think I like him a little bit more.
dan friesen
I don't have...
jordan holmes
I'm not a big fan of the way he released crack into the black community, but...
Hey!
dan friesen
I will say that my opinion has not changed at all.
I don't care.
This is a zero to me.
The idea of these...
jordan holmes
Come on, Nancy pegging Reagan in the White House.
Come on!
dan friesen
I'm more interested in the idea that...
There were these parties of people watching it.
I know!
That, to me, is much more fascinating than the tape itself.
jordan holmes
Where do you get an invitation to this shit?
dan friesen
I don't know.
I think the time has come and gone.
I don't think these parties are being held anymore.
jordan holmes
We've got to find out.
dan friesen
I think we're screwed.
jordan holmes
Let's get back on the phone with GCN.
dan friesen
Hey, Ted.
Ted, baby.
jordan holmes
Hey, Ted!
You ever see Reagan get pegged?
bob chapman
It certainly helps one's career if they engage in those kind of things.
alex jones
Oh, boy.
unidentified
Well, it was very, very prevalent.
bob chapman
You know, I lived there in the 60s, 70s, 80s, a long, long time, into the 90s.
And so I saw lots.
I lived in Malibu for years.
I spent a lot of time in Beverly Hills and, you know, all over Los Angeles.
But I saw lots, met lots of people.
Nothing surprises me.
jordan holmes
Okay.
alex jones
So you think Nancy knows about this reported stuff you're talking about?
jordan holmes
Oh, that's right.
Nancy's not dead yet.
bob chapman
I don't see how she could not have known.
alex jones
The reason I ask what color the film footage is, it's much easier.
Back in the 70s, they'd still be using animation.
It's much easier to fake a black and white.
bob chapman
But it goes beyond the film.
You know, there was other evidence I had.
But, you know, it's not something I've talked about in all the years.
alex jones
Well, let's get it.
Bob, you're a smart cookie.
You know, once you talked about this, you've got to tell it all.
So, I wish I never would have asked the question.
Now we have to get all the pus out of the wound here.
What else?
What's the other evidence?
Let's get it all out.
bob chapman
No, I don't have any other evidence.
alex jones
Okay, good.
Make sure every head is squeezed out.
You know why.
bob chapman
You know, that's it.
And it was my personal experience.
And it happened, and that's the end of it.
Alex hates Bob so much right now.
And that's where we all go.
alex jones
I thought you were going to say he was a communist or something.
I didn't know.
bob chapman
No, but he was on the edge there.
dan friesen
Oh, man.
That is insane disappointment.
That's so great.
Also, I love the...
jordan holmes
Make sure you get all the evidence out here.
Go for it.
I don't have any more.
Good!
dan friesen
I love the turn of that clip in the sense that Alex suggests they can use animation with black and white clips.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that maybe it's fake.
jordan holmes
It's a rotoscope.
dan friesen
And so Bob's response...
jordan holmes
Alex knows rotoscope pretty well.
dan friesen
Sure.
So Bob's response to that is...
Eh, it doesn't matter.
I have other evidence.
It's not just about the tape.
jordan holmes
And then Alex is like, what's the other evidence?
dan friesen
I don't have any other evidence.
jordan holmes
Okay, good.
dan friesen
Bob's an asshole.
alex jones
Bob is an idiot.
dan friesen
So that's the end of Alex interviewing Bob about this.
But there's a coda after he's done.
Bob is still on the phone, but it gets really boring.
There's no more...
jordan holmes
There's no way to go up from Reagan's gay.
That's going to be your tip-top.
dan friesen
And you can see and hear in the interview that they're running out of gas.
There's a lot of pauses.
There's Alex being like, God.
So they go to commercial.
And then they come back with this.
alex jones
I'm a little bit late getting back in the studio because my sister was on the PrisonPlanet.com forum and said, is this real?
And I do have the actual copy of it somewhere in my archives here.
It's the headline, credit card receipts and snare cowboy ring inside Reagan-Bush White House, Washington Times.
And then it came out in some other newspapers and they're trying to...
Because they don't have an IM to that computer for on air.
They're trying to grab it right now to put it up.
So that would add some mainstream news to what Bob Chapman was saying.
There it is.
Yeah.
There's the actual microfilm scan of it.
Show folks that again so I can read the whole headline, please.
Scroll back to the left side.
Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan.
Bush, call boys took midnight tour of White House.
And, you know, even though this stuff sounds shocking, remember the gay porn stars going to Bohemian Grove in the news?
Remember the gay madam who was the hundreds of midnight visits into the George W. Bush White House?
Bob Chapman?
I mean, really?
It's shocking to hear that, but then when you look at all the other evidence, it's not.
So there.
When the media goes crazy with this, I just showed you a mainstream news article.
I can show you more pointing the same direction.
So I'm glad that Marley ran into that because I was telling her, you know, search Ronald Reagan gay, and that came up.
So there you go, Bob Chapman.
There's some Washington Times backup for you.
bob chapman
Well, I don't know whether I should have said anything, but it's out, and that's just the way it is.
alex jones
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Fake laugh.
bob chapman
Oh, man.
As I say, he was a nice guy.
But everybody has their, well, many people have proclivities that are different than others.
But it was quite an experience living for 36 years in Southern California.
alex jones
Yeah.
Other things on the radar, the environmentalists are going crazy all of a sudden.
dan friesen
Great pivot.
jordan holmes
Moving on.
Thanks, dude.
Thanks for your shitty memoirs.
dan friesen
So the main reason I wanted to keep that clip in there is the comedy of, I told my sister to Google Ronald Reagan.
jordan holmes
Yeah, right?
That's going to get me killed, although you could just Google it.
dan friesen
Right, you could find this Callboy scandal.
jordan holmes
Wait, he pulled up Prison Planet.
Is our asshole PJW working for Prison Planet now?
dan friesen
Yeah, of course.
Paul Joseph Watson's been there since he was like 17 or something.
He's been a member.
Of Alex's team for like 16 years.
jordan holmes
Jesus!
I did not know that.
dan friesen
Yeah, he's one of the originals, like OG types.
But he's in London.
Prison Planet was the original, as I recall, what I believe to be the case is Prison Planet was the original website, and then Infowars sprung out of that.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
And Paul Joseph Watson is the editor-at-large of both sites, and his Twitter handle is Prison Planet.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
So, I don't know.
I don't care about him at all.
So there we go.
unidentified
Ronald Reagan.
jordan holmes
That's going to be a great time travel question.
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
If you could go back in time and murder Paul Joseph Watson, would you?
dan friesen
It'll be great to just...
I mean, it'll be the same conversation about Hitler, even though he's not going to commit a genocide.
It'll still be like a...
There'll be a contingent that's just like, eh, make him feel less scared of everything.
That'll help.
That is what seems to motivate Paul Joseph Watson to an extreme degree, is just intense fear of everything.
But, be that as it may, Ronald Reagan is gay, and a secretive organization holds screenings that they don't warn people that that's what they're going to watch.
jordan holmes
Well, you can't warn people.
dan friesen
No, of course.
Then you wouldn't go.
jordan holmes
Well, I would definitely still go, but I would definitely tell a lot more of my friends.
dan friesen
Let me be clear.
jordan holmes
I'd be like, hey, I'm going to see Reagan get pegged.
Do you want to come on with?
dan friesen
I don't think you'd get a plus one.
jordan holmes
I think you would want to crash a Reagan getting pegged viewing party.
dan friesen
Let me be perfectly clear.
If I got a weird invitation in the mail and it said, we cordially invite you to a screening of a video of LBJ getting pegged.
And there will be hot dogs, and there will be food and drink.
jordan holmes
There would have to be thematically appropriate food there as well.
dan friesen
I really just want a chili dog right about now.
That's really where I'm at.
If they said food and drink will be taken care of, it'll be at a private gala.
jordan holmes
Open bar?
dan friesen
I would be much more likely to go than if someone said, there's an interesting film.
You should see.
Because that's an invitation I can turn down seven days a week.
jordan holmes
That's true.
dan friesen
I turn down all sorts of invitations like that.
Like, oh, we should go see Baby Driver.
You want to come?
No.
jordan holmes
It is a great film.
dan friesen
Fine.
jordan holmes
Do you want to go see it?
dan friesen
No.
unidentified
Damn it.
dan friesen
I'm sure it's great.
jordan holmes
I thought I could catch you.
dan friesen
I'm sure it's great, but I can see it later.
I can't see a film of LBJ getting pegged later.
jordan holmes
Well, Google LBJ gay.
Apparently that's all you need to do.
dan friesen
Find some mainstream news.
At this point, I'd like to say once again, thank you, Charles, for donating to the show and for bringing this to our attention.
I knew that this was something that had happened, but I did not know the date.
And that being pinpointed was a great delight, and this is a real fun escape from shitty Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
dan friesen
If you'd like to send us back to a particular date in history, you can do so by going to knowledgefight.com, which is our website, and you can click the support the show button.
And if you donate at the time travel level, you can assign us a date in history.
We'll go back and see what the fuck Alex was doing.
And also, just, you know, our website has stuff on it.
So go check it out.
Knowledgefight.com.
jordan holmes
Follow us on Twitter.
unidentified
Yep.
jordan holmes
At knowledge underscore fight.
dan friesen
That's correct.
jordan holmes
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dan friesen
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unidentified
Damn it!
dan friesen
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jordan holmes
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dan friesen
Indeed.
Tell your friends.
Each one, teach one.
Something along those lines.
jordan holmes
Now that we got the explosive scoop that was, you know...
dan friesen
The six-year-old Alex Jones scoop.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Yeah, absolutely.
jordan holmes
And, of course, the 20-year-old Harper's Magazine scoop or whatever the fuck it was.
Or the Washington Times.
dan friesen
And the 40-year-old Bob Chapman scoop.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, yeah, we're definitely poised to make it big on this one.
jordan holmes
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jordan holmes
This is the type of shit that's going to shoot us to the top, Dan!
dan friesen
Indeed.
Indeed.
You know what, actually?
I did a little bit of research.
Because it's so weird, this idea of this group of people who are at this private soiree.
And I can't figure out who most...
jordan holmes
I thought you were about to say that you watched a lot of pegging videos in preparation for this.
dan friesen
That too.
jordan holmes
Okay, good.
dan friesen
But I'm not able to find...
jordan holmes
Just like we've all been watching a lot of cuckold episodes.
dan friesen
Sure.
There were like 18 people there.
jordan holmes
Cuckold episodes, that's what I call it.
dan friesen
Sure.
Pornographic episodes?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah.
I like mine with an overarching story arc.
dan friesen
Serialized?
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
dan friesen
So there's 18 people there at this party, and we know that Bob Chapman is one of them.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
I cannot figure out who 16 of them are, but I found out one of the other attendees of this party watching Nixon, not Nixon, Reagan get pegged.
jordan holmes
All right.
So do the timelines match up?
Absolutely.
Are we talking about similar-aged folk?
dan friesen
100%.
jordan holmes
Would they have been around the same area at that time?
dan friesen
I believe so, yes.
jordan holmes
Were they both big fans of Reagan?
dan friesen
Hard to say.
But I will say that this other guy, he has dentures.
jordan holmes
Oh, so...
Okay.
Alright, I see where you're going.
dan friesen
Do you get where I'm going with this?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
His name's John Rappaport.
I'm making all this up.
But at the same time, John Rappaport can go fuck himself.
jordan holmes
John Rappaport, go get pegged!
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.
alex jones
I love your work.
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